On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Fraser Gordon <fraser.gor...@runrev.com>wrote:
> That's the reason behind most of the functions we've marked as deprecated > in 7.0 - upgrading them to support Unicode would break existing stacks in > subtle ways (e.g. numToChar - somebody, somewhere, might be depending on > the fact that it interprets the number modulo 256. Plus, it takes the > native encoding rather than Unicode codepoints). <blunt>That's the Microsoft way to handle this. The Apple way would simply be to do the right thing -- if you want to be nice, issue a note that backwards compatibility is being broken and specify how and the reasons.</blunt> _______________________________________________ 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
