Re: Ideal Unicode?

2011-08-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ideal Unicode' Will never exist for a few simple reasons: 1. Unicode is a moving target (the Unicode commission keep producing updated versions). 2. Computers and computer operating systems are moving targets. If one is prepared to invest one hell of a lot of time (and I have) poking

Ideal Unicode?

2011-08-15 Thread Kee Nethery
In my perfect programming world ... I'd want all characters all the time for any place characters are displayed to be displayed and entered as unicode characters and represented as UTF8 bytes. If the display version has 割劥 I'd want the language to recognize those as two characters and as 6

Re: Ideal Unicode?

2011-08-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Kee, No, this isn't crazy at all. In fact, this is pretty standard amongst nowadays software products, particularly text editors. Most programming environments are capable of doing this. The availability of both char and byte in the LiveCode language indicates that RunRev plans to do the

Re: Ideal Unicode?

2011-08-15 Thread Jeff Massung
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: In my perfect programming world ... I'd want all characters all the time for any place characters are displayed to be displayed and entered as unicode characters and represented as UTF8 bytes. If the display version has 割劥