On 2017-01-05 09:56, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Um: this could be a "stupid Richmond" case rather than anything else
as I populated cells FF001
to FF01E with Grantha Samyuktaksharas: and those in FF002 and so on
behave perfectly well;
This is a case of 'stupid engine', rather than 'stupid Richmond':
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19045
The implementation of the bidi algorithm in the engine is currently
computing surrogate pairs incorrectly. In this case, 0xFF001 is being
read as a character in the arabic script area in the BMP which has the
'Arabic RTL' attribute. This means that it is being treated as an RTL
character when it should not be.
but FF001 could be a non-character which I had overlooked: If one goes
here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UF0000.pdf
information regarding FF001 is not much use . . .
The Range: F0000 - FFFFF is the Unicode Supplementary Private Use
Area-A; a bit like that area
in New Mexico.
Although "The entire plane is dedicated to private use with the
exception of the last two code points."
would seem to imply that FF001 should cause me no problems.
Indeed - end user applications are free to use SPUA-A and SPUA-B for
whatever purpose they wish... With the only caveat that two uses of said
areas might be completely incompatible. (i.e. a font designed for use in
one application which uses these areas, might break horribly in an app
which uses the area for a completely different purpose).
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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