Yes.  Everything in LiveCode just works concerning Unicode (except for a few 
quirks that are being ironed out).  

But, everything outside is simply binary, bits, ones and zeroes.  The functions 
textDecode() and textEncode() are the boundary between inside and outside.  
(You can also open files to an encoding.)  Outside are files or Internet TCP 
streams.  Inside are fields and character counting handlers.  

Inside is the abstraction of characters.  Outside are the bits. The functions 
convert between.

Dar
darzLab


> On Jun 18, 2016, at 1:54 PM, tbodine <bod...@bodinetraininggames.com> wrote:
> 
> Is the textDecode still necessary? I thought in LC 7 and up, Unicode "just
> worked"?
> 
> Tom B.
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