On 03/05/2010 18:52, Devin Asay wrote:
On May 3, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I am reposting this as it seems to have got lost
amongst the recent cruft. It actually concerns
an aspect of RunRev programming!
You should know better; this is the "Rant and Rave About All Things Peripherally Related to
Rev" list. What you want is the "How to Use Revolution" list. ;-/
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Yesterday I wrote:
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Recently I had a slightly worrying post from a chap
attempting to use my Devawriter on a computer
running Windows Vista.
The problem is that when Devawriter calls a Unicode
character that is not meant to move the cursor/insert place
forward, merely print something either above or beneath
the preceding character it does not; while printing the
character it also moves the insert forward so that
everything comes out incorrectly.
I tried to duplicate this problem on Mac and Windows XP
(not having access to Vista) and was unable to. Luckily
this chap managed to get hold of a machine running XP
and has had no further problems.
I would be extremely grateful if anybody has any ideas
and/or advice regarding this problem, as it is a real
problem. Obviously Vista does not "play ball" with
Unicode fonts in RunRev in quite the same way that
Mac and XP do.
Odd that you just ran into this with Win 7. Because I just noticed exactly the same
problem in Snow Leopard. I have a stack that lists Russian vocabulary words, which has an
option of showing the stressed syllables using one of these "overstrike"
Unicode characters. Specifically, I use an acute accent from the unicode 03 section
(Diacriticals, Greek, Coptic), character 0x301, or decimal 769. It has the effect of
placing the accent over the previous character.
But suddenly, in Snow Leopard, what has worked perfectly in Leopard and earlier
and Win XP now places the accent over the *following* character, which sounds
just like what your Win 7 user is experiencing.
So far this is just another data point that may help you figure out what's going on. I
haven't come up with a solution yet. I do have a hunch, though. I wonder if both SnoLeo
and Win 7 have "fixed" something in their unicode engines which slightly breaks
Rev's unicode implementation.
I'll let you know if I figure anything out.
Regards,
Devin
Thank you very much. The problem was spotted with Vista; I have had no
feedback from a Win 7 user.
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