Hi Richmond,
I think that Fontographer will show you the UTF8 values of the font values. You
can take those values and convert them to binary using the binaryEncode
function. Convert the binary value to UTF8.
It is probably easier to use Mac OS X's Character Viewer. This palette will
allowyou to view the code tables. You can look up unicode character 31f0 for
example. On intel machines, you need to reverse this hex number before you can
use it. 31f0 becomes f031, e201 becomes 01e2 etc. I believe you don't need to
do this on a PowerMac.
If you use these functions, you can just enter a sequence of hex numbers and
set the unicodetext of a field to the value returned.
function hexToUnicode theHex
put binaryEncode("H*",theHex) into myUnicode
if the processor contains "x86" then
repeat with x = 1 to the number of bytes of myUnicode step 2
put char x+1 of myUnicode & char x of myUnicode after
myNewUnicode
end repeat
return myNewUnicode
else
return myUnicode
end if
end hexToUnicode
function unicodeToHex theUnicode
if the processor contains "x86" then
repeat with x = 1 to the number of bytes of theUnicode step 2
put char x+1 of theUnicode & char x of theUnicode after
myNewUnicode
end repeat
if binaryDecode("H*",myNewUnicode,myHex) is 1 then
return myHex
end if
else
if binaryDecode("H*",theUnicode,myHex) is 1 then
return myHex
end if
end if
return empty
end unicodeToHex
Here's an example you might like:
on mouseUp
put empty into fld 1
set the textFont of fld 1 to empty
set the traversalOn of fld 1 to true
put
hexToUnicode("041f044004380432043504423000042004380449043c044e043d0434") into
myUnicode
lock screen
set the unicodeText of fld 1 to myUnicode
set the textFont of fld 1 to ",Cyrillic"
select the text of fld 1
set the textSize of the selection to 18
select empty
unlock screen
end mouseUp
Unfortunately, Unicode in LiveCode is a very, very dirty thing. Hence all those
hacks, such as put empty into fld 1, select the text of fld 1, etc.
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On 15 jul 2011, at 22:47, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Normally if one wants to put a unicode char into a field one does something
> like this:
>
> set the unicodeText of fld "MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld" to numToChat(2327) &
> numToChar(9745)
>
> or
>
> set the unicodeText of fld "MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld" to the unicodeText of fld
> "MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld" & numToChar(67234)
>
> and that works reasonably well . . .
>
> HOWEVER; if one cracks open a Unicode font with a font editing program such as
> Fontographer
>
> [the best way to see this is to use the LastResort font from the Unicode
> consortium]
>
> one finds that there are glyphs/chars that belong to font families that have
> names
> such as "kannada_31" but no hex address that is required for LiveCode to call
> it.
>
> Now one CAN generate Unicode addresses for those chars: but the big and
> burning question is if those ARE the real Unicode addresses or just locally
> assigned values.
>
>
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