Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
- Subject: Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
- From: "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:05:36 +0100
At 8:16 -0800 4/01/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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It's interesting to see that, what with all the extra accented
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characters you need every day in French, the numbers are relegated to the
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shift-keyboard. Do you use them, or do you tend to use the number pad
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instead?
<way OT>
Those good old extra accented characters; add a few extra non-accented characters like c cedilla, and call them all diacritics. They turn learning to type into a real fun - and I did learn :) This is also why I've always tried to stay far away from keyboards w/o keypads; they make typing an intolerably hard thing.
And - sorry I couldn't resist, as I'm personally concerned - think about the vietnamese people: they use roman characters, but add all sorts of funky accents both over and under the letters, usually many of them at the same time - the kind of accents that can really change the meaning of a word upside-down :)
</way OT>
Back to scripting now.
I wonder if anyone has already encountered a problem that has plagued me for awhile. I'm working on a script that extracts a resource as string and do all sorts of manipulation with it. This involved dealing with ascii char (0) - adding, getting the offset of etc.
The script by itself works well, but just showing ascii 0 in SE's event log window or SMILE for example can lead to unpredictable results, from displaying a whole junk in place of each character to crashing whatever editor.
At first I thought the culprit was the osax - and I've bothered more than one author, sorry :) - until I find today that it has nothing to do with it.
So, is this a known bug, am I the only one to encounter it, is there any solution?
Thanks,
Serge, who really is concerned about non-standard chars today :)
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