Re: Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

2011-05-08 Thread Curt Ford
Hello Slava, One of my projects worked pretty well with Russian, but it involved mostly typing in Russian, saving to a file as HTMLText, and later reading in that HTMLText for display in fields. The one place that involved manipulating the strings directly ('exploding' the words to display

Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

2011-05-08 Thread Slava Paperno (Bridge)
this summer. Gratefully, Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Curt Ford Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 6:56 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6 Hello

Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

2011-05-07 Thread Slava Paperno (Bridge)
Is anyone using LC 4.6 for really foreign stacks, like Slavic languages or Greek, in UTF-8? In my tests of 4.6.1, the Contents box of fields and labels accepts Russian fine, and it is displayed correctly, but Russian in a button caption or tooltip turns into garbage (actually, it looks like it

Re: Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

2011-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Slava, You can set the label but not the name of button to a unicode string. In LiveCode, you always use UTF16. If you have a UTF8 string, you need to convert it to UTF16 before you can use it in LiveCode. To convert a UTF8 string to UTF16, use the following syntax: put

Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6

2011-05-07 Thread Slava Paperno (Bridge)
To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Russian (UTF-8) in LC 4.6 Hi Slava, You can set the label but not the name of button to a unicode string. In LiveCode, you always use UTF16. If you have a UTF8 string, you need to convert it to UTF16 before you can use it in LiveCode. To convert a UTF8