On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, maybe I'm unusual, but none of these apply to any of the apps I've > ever written. I've done consulting work (oh so long ago) on apps that > stored people's names, and likely unicode comes in handy for those, but I > haven't asked the authors whether they take advantage of it. > > I'm not arguing against unicode, since I really don't know. The impression > I get is that there has been a huge opportunity cost of implementing it, > and on the list I've seen far more people complain about it than praise it. I really like the changes in LC 7 with regards to unicode. I am glad to (almost) be done with worrying about user input and user file names. I don't localize my software but I have people writing content in my software in Greek, Russian, Chinese, etc. The are also trying to open files that have unicode in the path names. I'm upgrading my products to use LC 8 (started in LC7) and will be very happy when I don't have to answer questions about why my software can't open certain files or can't be installed in a folder with a unicode character in the path name. My experience is that if you write an application for the general public that allows text input or needs to open files named by the user, then there is a high probability that you will run into unicode issues if your software doesn't have support for it. Not having proper unicode support is something I would eventually leave a development platform over. -- Trevor DeVore ScreenSteps www.screensteps.com - www.clarify-it.com _______________________________________________ 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