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.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 13 feb 2011, at 16:58, Richmond wrote: > 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 selectedText of fld "ABC" > end mouseUp > > what I need to know is: > > 1. Whether this will work on: > > 1.1. Mac INTEL, > > 1.2. Windows XP, > > 1.3. into Microsoft Word (which I do not own). > > sincerely, Richmond. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode