On May 6, 2006, at 3:29 PM, RH wrote:
I want to build a language learning software that uses various
methods and a
lot of multimedia to teach Russian language. Unicode support is
needed. I
found that entering Cyrillic language into field 1 is possible. But
to set
another field with exactly the same properties will distort
characters after
the first space.
Field "Russian 1": "Как дела" (how are you?)
Field "Russian 2": "Как????"
on mouseUp
set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of field "Russian2" to field "Russian1" -
only first
word is moved correctly
end mouseUp
Setting a field to ASCII using a Cyrillic font does not work either
because
a field crashes on such settings. For example field "Russian" is
set to font
"Arial CYR" and trying to enter Cyrillic will lead to very strange
behaviour
of text entry, cursor bouncing, etc.
Roland,
I feel your pain. However, you can get it to work. I've been working
on a very similar project with Cyrillic, and have solved most of the
problems you're encountering, both in Mac OS X and Windows. I haven't
seen this specific problem, but have seen similar ones. The biggest
problem is that characters that fall into the ASCII range, like space
(ascii 32), comma (44), period (46) are not encoded as unicode, but
remain ascii. To see what I mean type some Cyrillic text into your
field and enter this in the message box:
put the htmlText of fld "Russian 1"
You'll see that all of the Cyrillic characters are rendered as
Unicode entities in the htmltext, but the ascii-range characters are
simply rendered as the character glyphs themselves, and are enclosed
by a different font tag. One approach is to convert all the ascii
characters to unicode, like this:
replace space with uniencode(space,"w") in fld "russian 1"
It can help in some cases but can also get messy.
You can also try setting the htmlText of fld 2 to the htmlText of fld
1. Generally speaking, unicode "travels" better as unicode entities
imbedded in html than as straight unicode.
You might try looking at my site at revolution.byu.edu. Go to the
Tutorials by Topic link and look for Revolution and Unicode. There
are some notes there about using unicode, as well as some links at
the bottom to some example stacks. You'll have to open those from
within Rev, of course, by entering in the message box:
go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeTrials.rev";
HTH
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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