Thanks Devin That’s as cool as I hoped it would be! Magic indeed.
Graham > On 28 Oct 2014, at 18:56, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > >> If I had a very large keyboard capable of typing a wide range of Unicode >> characters (characters not on the keyboard of my normal computer), could I >> type them directly into an LC script? Would I need to be running LC7? How >> would the display of the script look - on a Mac, on a PC? I know a few >> people are working with Japanese, Sanskrit etc, so maybe someone has the >> direct experience to answer this. LC7 isn't really working for me at present >> so it would be nice to know before I start modifying my scripts to get >> serious about Unicode. > > Graham, > > LC 7 is “unicode anywhere”. That means you can type unicode in the script > editor, the message box, property inspector fields, etc., and LiveCode knows > what to do with it. > > So in a script you can use: > > put “привет” into fld “foo” # Cyrillic inside quotes > > and it just works. > > You can even use Unicode in variable names and object names, and it just > works. > > Magic. > > Regards, > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
