I confirm that this is a bug. It has been reported before as bug 9294 with the status FIXED, so I have written another report to reopen it. This has the number 19593 - the mothership will presumably acknowledge it as a duplicate of 9294 in due course.
Graham Happy Easter to all (yes, including those who don’t celebrate Easter or do but not on this day… probably a disguised cheese remark, but let it go.) > On 15 Apr 2017, at 17:33, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Martin > > It appears to me that you have found a bug, probably something to do with the > switch to Unicode in the LC engine. > > I ran a similar script in LC 8.1.4 rc1 - on a Mac, as it happens. > > In my button the label is “Adélie”. The output resulting from the ‘type’ > command is > Adlie > > and the count of characters in the field is 5, not 6 as it should be. > > If I capture the characters being ‘typed’ using ‘rawKeyDown’, I get > > 65 > 100 > 16777449 > 108 > 105 > 101 > > So the accented letter creates what appears to be a Unicode character, except > that I can’t find a Unicode character of that value after some rather limited > Googling. The other characters correspond to the relevant ASCII characters. > > Can someone else confirm this, and it so, I’ll be happy to report it as a bug. > > Graham > > > >> On 15 Apr 2017, at 15:11, martin meili via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> I’ve got a vocabulary trainer for French. >> >> To make it easier for the students to produce letters with accents such as >> „é“ (ascii-code 142), „à“ and „ç“ I’ve a number of buttons the label of >> which is the accented letter. As long as I use LC < 7.0 the script „type the >> label of me“ works fine - producing the accented letter just at the >> position of the blinking cursor in a textfield -, but doesn’t when I use LC >> >= 7. With normal letters such as „l“ or „ C’ „ the script works fine using >> any LC version. >> >> The script „put "C’ „ after text of field“ also works fine using any >> version, but here the letter isn’t in every case in its right place. >> >> Any ideas I should change so that I can make my standalones using LC 8.x.x.? >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
