Re: COPYing Unicode text

2011-02-13 Thread Richmond
On 2/13/11 7:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: This has to do with byte values at the hardware level. Welcome to the world of BIG and LITTLE endian values. Most of the time this stuff is handled by the OS. The Mac's transition from Power-PC to Intel was quit

Re: COPYing Unicode text

2011-02-13 Thread stephen barncard
This has to do with byte values at the hardware level. Welcome to the world of BIG and LITTLE endian values. Most of the time this stuff is handled by the OS. The Mac's transition from Power-PC to Intel was quite a feat considering all the challenges. On 1

Re: COPYing Unicode text

2011-02-13 Thread Richmond
On 02/13/2011 06:07 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, I did the same, on Mac OS X (PPC + Intel) and Windows XP. It worked fine, but sometimes I had to revert the hexadecimal values of the glyphs, e.g. from 1234 into 4321. In a longer stream, you'd get 123412341234 --> 432143214321. The

Re: COPYing Unicode text

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, I did the same, on Mac OS X (PPC + Intel) and Windows XP. It worked fine, but sometimes I had to revert the hexadecimal values of the glyphs, e.g. from 1234 into 4321. In a longer stream, you'd get 123412341234 --> 432143214321. There is only one possible answer: try and test. --

COPYing Unicode text

2011-02-13 Thread Richmond
I have managed (on a PPC Mac !!!) to copy Unicode text out of a field onto the computer's clipboard in such a way that the text and all its font and unicode characteristics are preserved on pasting into Abiword using a very simple script: on mouseUp select the text of fld "ABC" copy the selec