Re: best/fastest way to tell if a field contains unicode text?

2014-03-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 20/03/2014 15:37, Geoff Canyon wrote: I have a field that has been populated by setting the unicodetext. Some lines actually need unicode -- umlauts, enye, etc. -- and others are plain ascii. What's the most efficient way to count how many lines are plain and how many actually need unicode

Re: best/fastest way to tell if a field contains unicode text?

2014-03-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
Ben On 21 Mar 2014, at 02:40, Ben Rubinstein wrote: That probably means in fact that all the characters are in ISO-8859-1 (I think that the one-byte characters in UTF8 approximately correspond to ISO-8859-1, but I'm prepared to be corrected). UTF-8 only has 128 one-byte characters (0 -

Re: best/fastest way to tell if a field contains unicode text?

2014-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Fraser- Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:50:28 AM, you wrote: One annoyance is that the unicodeText of a field is not, in fact, unicode text in the 7.0 engine - it is binary data. Similarly, the uniEncode and uniDecode functions convert between two different forms of binary data rather than

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-19 Thread Richmond
On 19/02/14 03:18, Robert Sneidar wrote: Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this. I have a stack that demonstrates how to

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-18 Thread Devin Asay
Skip, Have you looked at the plaintext property of fields? I think it converts non-convertible characters to a '?' It might be a tool you could use. Devin Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: Thank you! This should

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-18 Thread Robert Sneidar
Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this. Bob On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: Skip,

Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Is there a way to scan a field for extra characters or non-English characters? I am trying to create a verification process for some imported text and get rid of these characters in one swoop. Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated as always! Thanks again, SKIP

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Is there a way to scan a field for extra characters or non-English characters? I am trying to create a verification process for some imported text and get rid of these characters in one swoop. Any guidance here would be greatly

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Thank you! This should give me something to go on. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Is there a way to scan a field for extra characters or non-English characters? I am trying to create a

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/02/14 23:20, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Thank you! This should give me something to go on. Something much better I just whipped up here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=19188 Sorry, off to have a bath. Richmond.

Re: Getting rid of Unicode characters

2014-02-17 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Feb 17, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Richmond wrote: Sorry, off to have a bath. TMI, Richmond. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

2014-02-07 Thread Mark Wieder
In case unicode is getting too easy to deal with, http://www.mufi.info/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

2014-02-07 Thread Richmond
On 07/02/14 21:11, Mark Wieder wrote: In case unicode is getting too easy to deal with, http://www.mufi.info/ Dead Muffy . . . this has been going on for yonks: it isn't really a problem as such as the Unicode 'thang' has loads of empty planes: we'll park all those dead letters

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-25 Thread Richmond
, in fact too clever for me. Possibly, but NOT clever enough . . . I would like an easy way to know what character encoding is being used in a textField: NOT just whether it is Unicode or Not: There are all sorts of variable such as fontLanguage [I have never quite worked out how that jives

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-25 Thread Peter W A Wood
way to know what character encoding is being used in a textField: NOT just whether it is Unicode or Not: There are all sorts of variable such as fontLanguage [I have never quite worked out how that jives with Unicode], MacCyrillic, and so on, ad nauseam. -- For the sake

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-24 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 23 Jan 2014, at 01:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? The latter would seem more compact, and appears to be the default for nearly every other dev tool (and text processors and so much more). Whilst development tools may use UTF-8 for source code encoding, many use

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-24 Thread Richmond
: NOT just whether it is Unicode or Not: There are all sorts of variable such as fontLanguage [I have never quite worked out how that jives with Unicode], MacCyrillic, and so on, ad nauseam. -- For the sake of argument, and at the risk of repeating myself: I managed to resurrect a 120 page

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-24 Thread Peter W A Wood
an easy way to know what character encoding is being used in a textField: NOT just whether it is Unicode or Not: There are all sorts of variable such as fontLanguage [I have never quite worked out how that jives with Unicode], MacCyrillic, and so on, ad nauseam

Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Graham Samuel
Unicode, derived from some display on a web site or elsewhere which simply operates in Unicode. I am prepared to do my manipulation entirely in Unicode, since in a way this is a superset of anything else I might have to handle (OK not quite, because the Mac has its own non-Unicode extended character

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
' PC apps like Microsoft Word Wow: how I dislike the fact that 'PC' = 'PC running Windows'. c) full Unicode, derived from some display on a web site or elsewhere which simply operates in Unicode. I am prepared to do my manipulation entirely in Unicode, since in a way this is a superset

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: So . . . I'm not being much help really. We love you anyway, Richmond…. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
of working out if a textFld contains Unicode, ASCII, Macfunny, Windowsfunny, Amigafunny or otherwise? [by 'funny' I mean many of the myriads of ancient 'standards' that are still floating around long after they should have been swept away by the Unicode Tsunami.] Unless, of course, some crafty

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 22 Jan 2014, at 16:55, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder who is going to love me if I suggest that the next release might feature the capability of working out if a textFld contains Unicode, ASCII, Macfunny, Windowsfunny, Amigafunny or otherwise? In 7.0, text

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.comwrote: In 7.0, Any idea when we'll see the first V7 beta ? (sorry, you opened the door….) *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
Just belted off a stack that WILL tell you if a textField contains Unicode text or not; it's here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=18869 Love, Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 19:12, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.comwrote: In 7.0, Any idea when we'll see the first V7 beta ? (sorry, you opened the door….) Stephen: you stole my wooden spoon; the one I use for stirring the

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Fraser Gordon wrote: In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16...) Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? The latter would seem more compact, and appears to be the default for nearly every other dev tool (and text processors and so much more). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 22 Jan 2014, at 17:23, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be anything… There are valid reasons for either choice but

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Fraser Gordon wrote: Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be anything… There are valid reasons for either choice but in the end it shouldn't really matter to anyone who isn't fiddling with the

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
, Fraser. It sounds good - quite exciting, actually. So I have to ask the uncomfortable question: do you have an anticipated release date for that version? If ALL text fields are to be Unicode by default will set the useUnicode to true be redundant, and how will that affect stacks made

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
in the field and, treating it as normal text pops it into another field which is tucked away off-screen. Now any text chars that have values higher than those in the ASCII set get mucked about; so, if the text in the input field is unicode, what ends up in the hidden field is not the same; then I do

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Selander
My thought exactly what with all the data shuffling among apps/programs that goes on in modern computing Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 14/01/23 2:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: Fraser Gordon wrote: In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16...) Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8

Re: Unicode anyone ?...

2013-09-23 Thread Tim Selander
I can't tell you definitively because I am barely hanging on by a thread when it come to understanding LC's usage of unicode... After a GREAT deal of poking around on this list, other forums and Google, this is what I've come up with to retrieve UTF8 from mySQL. In my case, my mySQL field

RE: Unicode anyone ?...

2013-09-23 Thread John Dixon
Thanks Tim... I am about to try your suggestions... I hope some of the 'magic' rubs off on me...:-) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:46:55 +0900 From: selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Unicode anyone ?... I can't tell you definitively because I am barely

RE: Unicode anyone ?...

2013-09-23 Thread John Dixon
Tim... thanks, your 'magic' command did the trick... I would never have arrived at that solution by myself... Dixie ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Unicode anyone ?...

2013-09-23 Thread Tim Selander
Glad someone else can benefit from all the time it took me to track down! Tim On 9/23/13 6:39 PM, John Dixon wrote: Tim... thanks, your 'magic' command did the trick... I would never have arrived at that solution by myself... Dixie

Unicode worries

2013-09-05 Thread Richmond
Having invested a lot of time and effort into Unicode work over the last few years, and, should it suddenly yield a semi-respectable financial reward, I will seriously consider investing in the Commercial version of Livecode when all the kickstarter goals have been completed. What worries me

Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format tags in it as well. If I read the file as binfile, carriage

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format tags

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Richmond
On 08/19/2013 10:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format tags in it as well

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Richmond
LF:Line Feed, U+000A VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B FF: Form Feed, U+000C CR:Carriage Return, U+000D CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A) NEL: Next Line, U+0085 LS:Line Separator, U+2028 PS:Paragraph Separator, U+2029 I have a feeling that a search and replace routine

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/19/13 2:15 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
a feeling that a search and replace routine should trawl through your target text and replace ALL the above with numToChar(10). Thanks for your trouble Richmond. I just did a replace on numtochar(13) and it worked okay. I swore I would not touch unicode until the rewrite was done. Famous last

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Richmond
unicode until the rewrite was done. Famous last words. Personally I don't know what all the fuss is about: Unicode 'as is' or, maybe 'as was', i.e. LC 4.5 works just fine for my purposes. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/19/13 2:15 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field text (which is unicodetext) with the glossary key. I can't make it work

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
to match the text as it is displayed in fields. Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field text

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
This is unicode array. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeArray.livecode; I hope it helps, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/19/13 3:08 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: This is unicode array. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeArray.livecode; I hope it helps, Thank you. I will try this if I have to, but the data is very large and stepping through each character would take a long time

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
lookups on the keys. The keys have to match the text as it is displayed in fields. Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/19/13 3:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Something like this should work: User clicks term to look up. get the text of the click line -- this will be displayed as UTF16 Sorry, that should have been get the unicodeText of the clickLine

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacque wrote: Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field text (which is unicodetext) with the glossary

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/19/13 3:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jacque wrote: Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Monte Goulding
On 20/08/2013, at 6:41 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: In my experience that's more strict than it needs to be, but if the format of encoded arrays is any clue there may still be a restriction on having NULL bytes in a key name. Which would count out utf16. Jacque why

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:22 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: Thanks, I'll try it. The glossary is only one piece of a much bigger data set involving a lot of different types of lookups, and this is going to be a huge pain. I'm going to have to rewrite a large part of the

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/19/13 4:24 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Jacque why not uniDecode(theKey,UTF8) in order to use it as a key in the array? It drops or alters characters. The glossary is used a few different ways, and sometimes I need to display all the keys in a field, to act as an index of terms. So it

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Monte Goulding
On 20/08/2013, at 8:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: It drops or alters characters. I'm not sure what you mean. UTF8 can represent all the unicode code points. The glossary is used a few different ways, and sometimes I need to display all the keys in a field, to act as an index of terms. So

Re: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
solve things; I'm still stuck with the discrepancy between visual text and unicode text. Also, this is the project where I can't use external files. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Support Toki
Hi, The best solution for using unicode menu is to add tags. The menuPick handler will get the tag as a parameter, and the tag is always ANSI on all platforms. For more explaination, check the keyword menu in the dictionary. The tag allows to manage cascading menus when menuHistory doesn't. I

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Support Toki
11:45, Support Toki a écrit : Hi, The best solution for using unicode menu is to add tags. The menuPick handler will get the tag as a parameter, and the tag is always ANSI on all platforms. For more explaination, check the keyword menu in the dictionary. The tag allows to manage cascading menus

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Thierry Arbellot Digital Salade website : www.tokitest.fr email : supp...@tokitest.fr AIM/iChat : supportToki Skype : support.toki Le 29/07/2013 11:45, Support Toki a écrit : Hi, The best solution for using unicode menu is to add tags. The menuPick handler will get the tag

How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Hi, It works on Mac OS, But does not work on Windows. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeMenuStudy.livecode; What's wrong? Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread Richmond
On 07/28/2013 03:14 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Hi, It works on Mac OS, But does not work on Windows. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeMenuStudy.livecode; What's wrong? Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ Sorry; pictures required for

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Richmond, You installed a vertical font. You can install regular fonts from an installer CD. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~introjpn/00_windowsxp.html You can show Japanese font in a field. But can not select menu items correctly. -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Jul 28,

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread Richmond
On 07/28/2013 06:06 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Richmond, You installed a vertical font. That seems quite obvious from my screenshots; unfortunately EPSON did not specify that those were vertical fonts. I'm sorry; but as I have no Japanese, and almost as little knowledge of Windows XP,

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread Richmond
I do believe that if all the Japanese characters you use are within the Unicode area reserved for Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji it should not be necessary for end-users to have to perform extra tricks to get your stuff working on their setup. My, limited, experience with Livecode and Unicode fonts

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
I tested the stack on Windows XP. It did not work. -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Jul 28, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Richmond wrote: I do believe that if all the Japanese characters you use are within the Unicode area reserved for Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji it should

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread Richmond
On 07/28/2013 06:26 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: I tested the stack on Windows XP. It did not work. -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ Well then, that needs to be filed as a BUG report so that the RunRev people can sort it out. Richmond.

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
I will. Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Jul 28, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Richmond wrote: On 07/28/2013 06:26 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: I tested the stack on Windows XP. It did not work. -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ Well then,

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread Richmond
Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ Well then, that needs to be filed as a BUG report so that the RunRev people can sort it out. Richmond. The way Livecode and Unicode DON'T WORK on Windows is a very sore point that I have been banging on about for ages with little or no result

Re: How can I get Unicode Menu Items on Windows?

2013-07-28 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
This is temporary unicode menu script until bugs are fixed. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/tempoUnicodeMenu.livecode; Use menuHistory and custom function getUnicodeMenuItem. It works on MacOS and WIndows. I do not use Linux. Please try. -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http

Re: unicode font names

2013-07-13 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Richmond, I found my problem. When I set a unicode label of pulldown menu, menu items are garbage characters. I typed Japanese characters フォント in field 1. set the unicodeLabel of btn pulldown Menu to the unicodeText of fld 1 Then set them in btn pulldown Menu. on mouseDown

Re: unicode font names

2013-07-13 Thread Richmond
On 07/13/2013 02:54 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Richmond, I found my problem. When I set a unicode label of pulldown menu, menu items are garbage characters. I typed Japanese characters フォント in field 1. set the unicodeLabel of btn pulldown Menu to the unicodeText of fld 1

unicode font names

2013-07-12 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Hi, Can anybody set unicode font names of the fontNames to the menu items of pulldown menu? Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: unicode font names

2013-07-12 Thread Richmond
On 07/12/2013 10:16 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Hi, Can anybody set unicode font names of the fontNames to the menu items of pulldown menu? Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ Well, I work with Unicode fonts all the time, and find that on mouseDown put

Re: unicode font names

2013-07-12 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
menuPick -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Richmond wrote: On 07/12/2013 10:16 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Hi, Can anybody set unicode font names of the fontNames to the menu items of pulldown menu? Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-29 Thread Richmond
your beef isn't with the Script Editor per se, but with the parser in the engine that is throwing errors when it encounters unicode. And that's a legitimate beef, and one that hopefully will be addressed soon. Thanks for the clarification. The main reason we need to be able to put unicode

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-29 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
Richmond, unicode in script is what I'm waiting also, but you can set substack with library of fields containing Unicode text and then use put unicode in your scripts to populate the text into your destination fields. You don't need to use numToChar. Marek

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Richmond wrote: The main reason we need to be able to put unicode in a script is so that one can write: put !@#$%^*() into fld output1 rather than a whole chain of extremely tedious numToChar statements. That particular example works now and doesn't require

Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-28 Thread Richmond
I wonder how one can enter unicodeText directly into the script editor? When one wants to put a script into an object without opening the script editor one does this sort of thing: set the script of btn unicodeTest to fld Nonsense now, if fld nonsense contains unicodeText that just ends up

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, Almost every current development tool can do that, except for LiveCode. What we need is a UTF8 script editor. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-28 Thread Richmond
On 06/28/2013 09:24 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, Almost every current development tool can do that, except for LiveCode. What we need is a UTF8 script editor. Um! That doesn't sound all that good. What I do not understand is, if the script editor contains a field Scripts in

Re: Script Editor and Unicode

2013-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
se, but with the parser in the engine that is throwing errors when it encounters unicode. And that's a legitimate beef, and one that hopefully will be addressed soon. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

XML and Unicode

2013-06-13 Thread Pascal Lehner
Hi everyone, I am working on small tool to convert a specific XML file into several html pages. The whole thing looks good and should be working fine eventually. However, there is one thing I did not figure out yet: Unicode. My XML is partially french and has a lot of symbols like

AW: XML and Unicode

2013-06-13 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
, 13. Juni 2013 14:54 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: XML and Unicode Hi everyone, I am working on small tool to convert a specific XML file into several html pages. The whole thing looks good and should be working fine eventually. However, there is one thing I did not figure out yet

Re: XML and Unicode

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
working on small tool to convert a specific XML file into several html pages. The whole thing looks good and should be working fine eventually. However, there is one thing I did not figure out yet: Unicode. My XML is partially french and has a lot of symbols like this: sitenamePersonnes

Re: XML and Unicode

2013-06-13 Thread Pascal Lehner
looks good and should be working fine eventually. However, there is one thing I did not figure out yet: Unicode. My XML is partially french and has a lot of symbols like this: sitenamePersonnes du monde rural aux 19ème et 20ème siècles/sitename however, when I read this file

Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
I apologize up front for being particularly clueless on this whole character encoding concept. I'm still trying to adjust to speaking American English as opposed to the Queen's English so not too suprising I'm not grasping unicode too well! I understand the concepts and the use of uniencode

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
that require double-byte encoding that is when the fun starts; and as Livecode seems only to function with Unicode characters in the first linguistic plane some are going to be forever inaccessible regardless of what you do. 4. Work out which language groups you are going to target first, instead

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
I encourage you to go to full Unicode. That means (for now) using the unicodeText to get text into and out of a field. Then convert that to UTF8 and back for a database with UTF-8 encoding. (And at this point you can say that your program only works with UTF-8 encoding set for SQLite

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
/kings/**mary4.htmhttp://www.jacobite.ca/kings/mary4.htm ) couldn't get her head round any English to save her life, that must be a serious problem . . . LOL. Did she speak a unicode dialect of Bavarian? 2. Here, in Bulgaria, everybody who works with computers has English (of some sort

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Dar, I think I get the picture now. I'll stick with UTF8 for now. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: I encourage you to go to full Unicode. That means (for now) using the unicodeText to get text into and out

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: I encourage you to go to full Unicode. That means (for now) using the unicodeText to get text into and out of a field. Then convert that to UTF8 and back for a database with UTF-8

revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
I wonder if anybody else has run across this problem with Windows Vista (does anybody use Vista?), 7 or 8? If I install a font that has non-standard Unicode chars in the Personal Private Use Area on one of these Windows systems (I test with Windows 7) something 'funny' happens: Those chars

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode itslef are over-ridden by Windows; something

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Richmond, Am 29.05.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com: On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode

Re: Unicode display on Linux.

2013-05-20 Thread Richmond
On 05/19/2013 05:46 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/19/2013 09:23 AM, Richmond wrote: Bug report or no bug report, I have to work with LC 4.5. A sorted out bug would appear in a later version; one for which I, currently (and many others, I suspect) do not have the money to buy. Therefore,

Unicode display on Linux.

2013-05-19 Thread Richmond
Unicode display on Linux has been a BIG headache for me for about 3 years with no solution in sight. The answer, perhaps inevitably, turns out to be very simple indeed. --- The Problem. I have a textField called OOTPUT

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