*Mark Waddingham_wrote:_ <mailto:m...@livecode.com> *
snip
I suspect OpenOffice does its own (bespoke) font layout and rendering which is
why it 'does something there'. However, whether or not what it does is
'correct', is another matter.
snip
Of course the "nasty" question to ask at this point
is why LiveCode IS dependent for Unicode handling on the underlying OS
and is unable to do its own internal processing.
While I'm on a "nasty" streak this page needs to be sorted out:
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/20441-unicode
as it makes no mention of *numToCodepoint*.
Here, Fraser says something about Unicode:
*https://livecode.com/tag/unicode/
"*Those of you who have been paying attention to my previous blog posts
(if you exist!) will have heard me mention that to convert between Text
and Binary you need to use textEncode and textDecode. With these
functions, you specify an encoding. But when the engine does it
automatically, what encoding does it use?
"The answer is the "native" encoding of the OS on which LiveCode is
running. This means "CP1252" on Windows, "MacRoman" on OSX and iOS and
"ISO-8859-1" on Linux and Android. All of these platforms fully support
Unicode these days but these were the traditional encodings on these
platforms before the Unicode standard came about. LiveCode keeps these
encodings for backwards-compatibility."
[ Oh, and Yes, Fraser, I, at least, have read your blog posts with great
interest. ]
So, LiveCode keeps encodings for bw compat., but penalises people who
would like to be forward compatible; at least in the ability to
run off standalones that will function on later instantiations of
operating systems, and to that end making sure that these things show
up on the older operating systems.
Of course one of the easier ways round this is to withdraw support for
earlier OSes . . .
But as the documentation for LiveCode 8.1.3 states:
T The Mac engine supports:
10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on Intel
10.7.x (Lion) on Intel
10.8.x (Mountain Lion) on Intel
10.9.x (Mavericks) on Intel
10.10.x (Yosemite) on Intel
10.11.x (El Capitan) on Intel
10.12.x (Sierra) on Intel
something is not quite right.
Richmond.
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