On 22 Jan 2014, at 16:55, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder who is going to love me if I suggest that the next release might > feature the capability of working out if a textFld contains > > Unicode, ASCII, Macfunny, Windowsfunny, Amigafunny or otherwise? In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16 but this isn't really visible) but may be converted to the native encoding implicitly (and lossily, for characters that don't exist in the native encoding). There will be functions to convert to specific text encodings but said encoded text is treated as binary data and not a string. For ordinary text (i.e something you didn't encode), everything "just works" and you don't have to care whether it is Unicode or not. > > Ooh, while I'm here; I wonder if the RaspPI or the Android engine would > deploy on a RISC machine running RISC OS ??? Given that RiscOS uses a fundamentally different API to either Android or Linux/POSIX, it won't work and a port would be equivalent to adding a whole new platform. The RPi was easy because it is still Linux, just using a different processor (think x86 and PowerPC Macs). I do remember using RiscOS on Acorn R3000s and R5000s (I think) at primary school and it was an interesting OS (plus, I liked that it was stored in flash ROM and could boot the machine in seconds). I've yet to try it out on the Pi but I should give it a go. Regards, Fraser _______________________________________________ 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
