Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, called
the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong
to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different
letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of
the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a
different place from the letter it should have been
if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with their
pens . . .
. . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has the
Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424)
seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my font
when I do this:
put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff"
even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with:
put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff"
A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being able
to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the
Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not
convinced about that.
All this on Macintosh 10.7.5.
In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see what
goes on there.
Richmond.
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