Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sure! It’s called the, “Apple OS”. ;-) Not sure about the graphical stuff tho’. Also, not sure how you would go about installing it. Bob S On Aug 18, 2014, at 11:02 , Alain Farmer wrote: > Hey! I found an easy workaround to the problem of diacriticals in folder > names. > I got the list o

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-18 Thread Alain Farmer
Hey! I found an easy workaround to the problem of diacriticals in folder names. I got the list of paths by recursively getting all of the folders, including the diacritical ones I had trouble with. The folders function lists these folders, but "there is a folder" reported that diacritical ones di

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark. On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: > ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with > diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode > transliterations. Thanks for confirmi

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode transliterations. Thanks for confirming that, Mark. One more down. Now I can focus on figuring out why font sizes seem inappropriately large on Li

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:53:33 PM, you wrote: > Version 6.6.2 predates the extensive work done with implementing Unicode > throughout LiveCode, which should also take into account characters in > file paths not well handled by earlier versions of the engine. ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 d

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alain Farmer wrote: > To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am > swamped with work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk > using something beta at this time. I can understand that; I mix my time between 6 and 7 myself throughout the day as project needs require

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
To Richmond: YES, LiveCode runs on UNIX machines. Btw, MetaCard was first developed for UNIX, then Windows, then Mac. To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am swamped with work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk using something beta at this time. To Mark:

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alain Farmer wrote: I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() & "Acériculture" into myFolder1 put getCurrentFolder() & "Acericulture

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/08/14 22:41, Mark Wieder wrote: Alain- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 10:25:10 AM, you wrote: Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. Does Livecode work on UNIX? If so why is this not more widely publicised? Richmond.

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alain- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 10:25:10 AM, you wrote: > Hello y'all, > I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. > I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. > there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. > put getCurrentFolder() & "Acéricul

Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() & "Acériculture" into myFolder1 put getCurrentFolder() & "Acericulture" into my