Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Richmond
On 12/17/2012 10:22 PM, Richmond wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:55 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH and a multi-coloured light bulb it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20753888 mind you some peopl

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Richmond
On 12/17/2012 07:55 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH and a multi-coloured light bulb it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20753888 mind you some people try it this way: hellospaceman.blogsp

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-15 Thread Richmond
There is a discussion with algorithms here: http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#utf16-4 However, I cannot understand it, and feel that there is an element of obfuscation going on there. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-15 Thread Richmond
On 12/15/2012 04:40 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond Maybe this is a bit naive; but how does one derive the 2 Hex numbers for a character beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane if one knows the Unicode address? The algorithm is explained here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Code_points_

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-15 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond > Maybe this is a bit naive; but how does one derive the 2 Hex numbers for a > character beyond the > Basic Multilingual Plane if one knows the Unicode address? The algorithm is explained here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Code_points_U.2B1_to_U.2B10 Implementing it wi

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-15 Thread Richmond
On 12/13/2012 04:29 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: According to the User Guide, LiveCode employs UTF-16 encoding: "LiveCode fields and other controls use the UTF-16 encoding for Unicode. In order to use Unicode in a field or in the labels of controls, paste in Unicode text, or set the textFont of th

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-12 Thread Peter W A Wood
According to the User Guide, LiveCode employs UTF-16 encoding: "LiveCode fields and other controls use the UTF-16 encoding for Unicode. In order to use Unicode in a field or in the labels of controls, paste in Unicode text, or set the textFont of the control to ",unicode"." As I understand, ch

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, Athough LiveCode doesn't support higher level code table values, LiveCode does support higher level unicode values. You just need to remember to switch the byte values when reading them from Apple's character palette. Also, I think you mean "ASCII" 65942 instead of 65940. on mouse

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/12/2012 11:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/12/12 2:53 PM, Richmond wrote: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld "f1" to numToChar(65940) end mouseUp and when I click on the button I get nothing like anything that should appear (a capital X with a bar t

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/12/12 2:53 PM, Richmond wrote: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld "f1" to numToChar(65940) end mouseUp and when I click on the button I get nothing like anything that should appear (a capital X with a bar through its middle), but something that resemble

Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-12 Thread Richmond
So there I am wondering about the higher plains (the svarga-lokas . . . LOL), so I try this: I make a stack with 2 buttons (called 'button 1' and 'button 2' respectively) and 2 fields (called 'f1' and 'f2' repectively) and put the following code into button 1: on mouseUp set the useUnicode