On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:
How about this: (untested code)
I'm saving your handlers in case I need to go that route, Mark; but as I said to Jacque, I can't believe someone programming an application in Germany, the Scandinavian countries, or other nations where high-order characters are part of the alphabet have to go to that length.
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Rob Cozens
Can you imagine trying to write a search function that includes needed or proper escape-sequences? I might need to do this. My markup language project stores data as markup so for me it works to use them. Changing button text and all the other GUI elements might require a conversion function that executes mainly on startup but also when ever needed. I was hoping to port MTML over to other languages that include these higher ascii characters. I have up to nine-character escape-sequences numerically allowed for while selecting text from a text field. So in this way I'm working with the text seen, (selected), and the equivalent HTML/MTML-Text as well. I did this so I could be ready for international versions and to display markup fragments in their original form in pages. I do this on the fly because these are pages in a book and they are in a constant state of change the more the user uses some of the tools available. Maybe you remember when I mentioned getting beyond burn-out a few months back? I wrote these numerical based algorithms during that time. I have since come out of that burnt-out state, thank goodness.
Speed has always been an issue while implementing a satisfying user experience. Most of this conversion stuff looks instantaneous to the user, thanks Rev. So I'm convinced that you can build a conversion function that uses escape-sequences in combination with selected fonts that will work so fast that it will work for you too. I won't know for sure until I try other languages myself.
Best wishes,
Mark
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