Thank you all for your advice. Jacque, normalizeText() was what I had vaguely remembered but couldn’t find.
Richmond, I am working on a library that removes emojis from text and replaces them with imageSource... so that the text can be printed to PDF on mobile. You are correct about the “going blue in the face” bit. And I’m pretty sure what I’m doing is just one step up from nothing. — Scott > On Nov 15, 2020, at 9:21 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > See the normalizeText entry in the dictionary, I think that might be what you > mean. > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > On November 15, 2020 4:17:14 AM scott--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> I’m a little over my head in this area so I may not be describing this quite >> right… >> Some unicode glyphs seem to be describable with different (arrangements of) >> codepoints. Is it possible to coerce the glyph to be described in a >> “standard” way? >> >> -- >> Scott Morrow >> >> Elementary Software >> (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) >> web https://elementarysoftware.com/ >> email sc...@elementarysoftware.com >> booth 1-360-734-4701 >> ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
