Apart from the basics like ñ and é, how do you enter non-ascii characters on iOS? Do iPhones in Russia display a different keyboard by default? How about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of images?
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Trevor DeVore <li...@mangomultimedia.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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