Thanks for that thought Peter. RunRev are now on the case, but I still have not absolute confirmation that it's a bug. I did check that my stack is using the 7.0 file format (if it wasn't, it would be easy to see what went wrong). I'll report here when I get more info.
Graham > On 20 Nov 2014, at 14:06, Peter W A Wood <peterwaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Graham > > It may be that that whilst string data processed by our LiveCode scripts and > handlers is Unicode that is not the case with UI objects. I think that there > is a chance that LiveCode is still using native encoding (Windows Code Page > on Windows, ISO-8859-1 on Linux and the truly venerable MacRoman on OS X). > > I’m not sure how to check but would imagine many people on the list do. > > Regards > > Peter > >> On 20 Nov 2014, at 19:23, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> I’ve got a strange problem that (so far) I haven’t been able to reduce to a >> simple recipe. >> >> I’m using a few Unicode characters in some menus in a cross-platform app (I >> mean special characters that don't appear on a Windows keyboard - I do >> realise that everything in LC is Unicode now). In this instance I’m using LC >> 7.0.1 rc-2 on a Mac with Yosemite simulating a PC using Windows 7 with >> Parallels. >> >> I have a menu script in an Edit menu that looks for menu items in the usual >> way, using a switch statement. As an example, one of the items is the square >> root sign, whose Unicode encoding is 0x221A. The item reads >> >> Insert √ >> >> [I hope the last character - the square root sign - comes across in this >> email]. Initially, I got the square root character via the IDE, by executing >> >> put numToCodePoint(0x221A) >> >> in the Message Box and copying it, so I know I've got the real character and >> not one that looks that the same but is part of the special non-standard Mac >> set, or a glyph derived from html. >> >> I pasted this character into the menu item and in the corresponding script, >> and I could see both strings quite clearly. However, when I save my stack, >> quit from LC, go back in and look at it again, the square root character has >> disappeared, BOTH in the script and in the menu item, to be replaced by '?' >> or sometimes a character whose Unicode encoding turns out to be 24. This is >> very odd, and pretty repeatable: however when I try to reproduce the problem >> in a very simple stack with one card and one menu bar, things look fine and >> the issue doesn't show up. >> >> I just found out that if I recreate this menu item and corresponding script >> on a Mac with LC 7.0.1 rc-2, it looks OK there, but if I open the SAME FILE >> in Windows 7, the characters have already been changed. So it looks as if LC >> 7 is not allowing Unicode to 'just work' across platforms, but it is not at >> all a straightforward issue. For example, I have some ordinary text in >> fields in my app containing the square root character, and they don't go >> through this transformation - curiouser and curiouser... >> >> Obviously I am struggling to get something to show the mother ship, and to >> work out if there is anything my code could have done to cause this (seems >> unlikely, since I don't execute any of my own scripts before seeing the >> anomaly) - but meanwhile, can anyone shed any light on this? >> >> TIA >> >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
