Al, I just quickly added a Japanese keyboard option to my OS X keyboard menu. I selected to Katakana keyboard and typed in DO in a LiveCode field. It was one codepoint and one character. I don’t know how to type the voicing mark separately.
Dar On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Dar Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-7-codepoint-question-tp4678428p4678438.html >> Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
