Richard: re: I thought Kay's post lent a welcome balance to the discussion.
Good for you. It's all in perspective. The tone of Kay's post certainly didn't sound like a "welcome balance" to me. It sounded condescending, so I responded in kind. Trust me, that was far milder than what I felt like saying. re: "Entire user community" is pretty big, and neither Kay nor anyone else has suggested no one report bugs. Nor did I. My comment was about me, and my reluctance to keep strong feelings under wraps. Especially since I've already been doing that. For a long time. I spent a very successful career developing big bux big iron software, all the way from programming low level operating system interfaces (including assisting IBM with some of their early operating systems) to high level management. I know software is a tough job. My involvement in this thread started with a desire for clarification of a claim made by one of the developers (?) which made it sound like LC was determining all by its lonesome that Unicode was being used. If that were the case, and we could disable that auto-determination, I would readily use it as an "easy" way out of a situation that affects my application. Sometimes the developers are so close to their baby that they overlook some obvious alternatives. Was that the case here? I don't know. And I still don't. I doubted it when I first conceived the notion, but I would have been amiss by not mentioning it with the hopes of being a help to myself and others in the community. re: But let's also try to maintain a perspective of actual scope here, relying more often on what we've seen for ourselves rather than what we heard from someone who who heard it from someone else. If you can review the comments here and on other forums and come to the conclusion that Unicode support did not impact the "Entire User Community" at some level, then we will have to agree to disagree. I know for a FACT that it impacted my app in a negative manner, and I explained the circumstances. A simple answer to a simple question would have short circuited this discussion many posts ago. re: Have you submitted it? [the "eof" bug]. If not, do you have a sample script I might use to verify the issue and submit it for you? I submitted it, complete with a detailed script/recipe. It was accepted as a bug, and they [claim to have] fixed it. When I need to enhance that app, I will verify it. TED -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC7-Unicode-tp4689927p4690301.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
