Oh, no, not at all.  You can type in Japanese.  Well, I’m pretty sure.  

My daughter does it all the time in other applications.  She types in romaji 
(western letters).  I think that gets combined to katakana (phonetic) and then 
she can choose one of may choices of Kanji (Chinese looking).  Something like 
that.

I don’t have a Japanese keyboard enabled on my computer, so I didn’t bother.

The reason for the script was to illustrate that the Katakana DO can be written 
as to basic symbols, the TO plus a voicing mark.  Notice the sounds are 
similar; one is unvoiced and one is voiced.  The TO and the voicing mark are 
two code points in LiveCode, but one character in LiveCode.  I wanted to make 
sure I got exactly those code points, so I could show that a string with two 
code points can contain one character.  

Notice that in Unicode the combining mark comes after the character it combines 
with.  

Now, I can type in Japanese in a crude way because I usually use the U+ 
keyboard on OS X.  I hold down option and type in the hex code.  

So…   ト         ド

That would not be the way for someone entering Japanese text to do it.  But, 
for a Unicode learner like me, it works.

Dar




On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Alejandro Tejada <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dar Scott wrote
>> [snip]
>>   put numToCodepoint( 0x30C8 ) into kto
>>   put numToCodepoint( 0x30C9 ) into kdo
>>   put numToCodepoint( 0x3099 ) into kVoiceMark
>>   put numToCodepoint( 0xFF9E ) into kHalfVoiceMark
>>   put kto & kVoiceMark into kdoAlt1
>>   put length(kdoAlt1) into kdoAlt1N
>>   put kto & kHalfVoiceMark into kdoAlt2
>>   put length(kdoAlt2) into kdoAlt2N
>>   put kto & tab & kdo & tab & kdoAlt1 & tab & kdoAlt1N & tab & kdoAlt2 &
>> tab & kdoAlt2N
>> [snip]
> 
> Does this means that the only way to write Japanese
> in a field is using a script (or pasting the characters
> from the clipboard)?
> 
> Al
> 
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