This has to do with byte values at the hardware level. Welcome to the world of BIG and LITTLE endian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness> 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 13 February 2011 10:27, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. There is only one possible answer: try and test. >> >> > I must be a bit 'thick', but I don't entirely understand what you mean. > > On Mac PPC a long string of repeating Unicode glyphs copy-pastes > successfully into > both Abiword and Open Office. > > -- >> Best regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
