Re: Re; Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/21/2014, 6:08 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: When I switched from LC 6.x series to 7.x, I assumed my ‘saves’ would save in the new format. They didn’t. That explains a lot. I suppose everyone else here already knows that you have to do a ‘Save As…’ to get the new format - but just in case… I th

Re: Re; Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-21 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Just FYI, I just got this from the mother ship. I was under the impression > that the system property > > the stackFileVersion > > showed the file format (7.0 or earlier) of the currently open stack. It > doesn’t: all it shows is the format

Re; Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-21 Thread Graham Samuel
Just FYI, I just got this from the mother ship. I was under the impression that the system property the stackFileVersion showed the file format (7.0 or earlier) of the currently open stack. It doesn’t: all it shows is the format that any new stack will have when created in the IDE. To find ou

Re: Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-20 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks for that thought Peter. RunRev are now on the case, but I still have not absolute confirmation that it's a bug. I did check that my stack is using the 7.0 file format (if it wasn't, it would be easy to see what went wrong). I'll report here when I get more info. Graham > On 20 Nov 2014,

Re: Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
Graham It may be that that whilst string data processed by our LiveCode scripts and handlers is Unicode that is not the case with UI objects. I think that there is a chance that LiveCode is still using native encoding (Windows Code Page on Windows, ISO-8859-1 on Linux and the truly venerable Ma

Unicode menu and script characters changing unexpectedly

2014-11-20 Thread Graham Samuel
I’ve got a strange problem that (so far) I haven’t been able to reduce to a simple recipe. I’m using a few Unicode characters in some menus in a cross-platform app (I mean special characters that don't appear on a Windows keyboard - I do realise that everything in LC is Unicode now). In this in