On Aug 17, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Cat Kutay wrote:
I am trying to compare phonetic script from the htmlText of a card,
and in a database. However the htmlText im meoory seems to lose the
unicode formating, and also displaying messages for error do not
have the formatting
Concerning the displaying of messages, the Revolution command
dictionary entry for 'answer' includes this paragraph:
The prompt can be either formatted text (in the htmlText
property's format)
or plain text. If the prompt contains <p> or a start/end tag pair,
the answer command assumes the text is in the same format as the
htmlText property. Otherwise, the answer command assumes the text
is plain text.
So, if you are using 'answer' to display messages with the special
characters, try wrapping the text with <p>.
Concerning the loss of unicode in memory, I have assumed IPA for the
phonetic script and tried this:
on mouseUp
set the useUnicode to true
-- IPA for "er" in some dialects of English
set the unicodeText of field "field" to numToChar(0x025A)
put the htmlText of field "field"
end mouseUp
That put this into the message box:
<p><font face="Lucida Grande" lang="ja">ɚ</font></p>
(Don't worry about the "ja"; Revolution thinks everything is Japanese.)
The IPA "er" is represented by the "ɚ". Notice that the number
is now in decimal, not in hexadecimal.
I have seen Revolution get confused about diacritical marks, so if
there are combining marks in your phonetic notation, then there might
be a problem. For example, I tried to modify the above handler to
display a dental t, but the diacritic did not display and it was
isolated from the t in the htmlText.
If the database uses UTF-16 or UTF-18 rather than the number for the
character or a character encoding other than Unicode, then you might
have trouble with the comparison.
If you want Unicode text, then use the unicodeText property. That is
UTF-16 in host byte order. You can convert that to UTF-8 with the
uniDecode() function. Look at 'unicodeText' and 'uniDecode' in the
Revolution dictionary.
I might have misunderstood the problem. Please ask again if that is
the case.
Dar Scott
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