According to the User Guide, LiveCode employs UTF-16 encoding: "LiveCode fields and other controls use the UTF-16 encoding for Unicode. In order to use Unicode in a field or in the labels of controls, paste in Unicode text, or set the textFont of the control to ",unicode"."
As I understand, characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane occupy two "UTF-16 Characters" This example is taken from the Mac Character Viewer: 𐅐 GREEK ACROPHONIC ATTIC TEN STATERS Unicode: U+10150 (U+D800 U+DD50), UTF-8: F0 90 85 90 This worked for me (using LiveCode 5.5.3): on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld "f1" to numToChar(55296) & numToChar(56656) end mouseUp Hope this helps. Peter On 13 Dec 2012, at 04:53, Richmond wrote: > So there I am wondering about the higher plains (the svarga-lokas . . . LOL), > so I try > this: > > I make a stack with 2 buttons (called 'button 1' and 'button 2' respectively) > and 2 fields (called 'f1' and 'f2' repectively) and put the following code > into button 1: > > on mouseUp > set the useUnicode to true > set the unicodeText of fld "f1" to numToChar(65940) > end mouseUp > > and when I click on the button I get nothing like anything that should appear > (a capital X with a bar through its middle), > but something that resembles a badly deformed Hebrew 'Ain'. > > in button 2 I put the following script: > > on mouseUp > set the useUnicode to true > put charToNum(fld"f1") into fld "f2" > end mouseUp > > and get "404", which is, indeed a sort of funny 'Ain'. > > This would seem to suggest 2 things: > > 1. RR/LC cannot cope with Unicode addresses above the first plane. > > 2. RR/LC copes with this by truncating the addresses. > > Does anybody know of a work around for this? > > [this does not affect my work directly, but does interest me both in terms of > future work, and > relating to the capabilities of RR/LC in general] > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
