Re: Trouble with Unicode text
Re: Trouble with Unicode text
- Subject: Re: Trouble with Unicode text
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:12:06 +0000
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:20 am, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
John:
Thanks. I don't know much about Unicode.
Do you have any idea what setting(s) might affect this? Something
must have changed between this working and it not working. For weeks
everything was fine. I did poke through my System Preferences, but
didn't change anything (at least not intentionally).
A sigma (option-w) in my code looks okay, but at runtime the value is
wrong. The characters I type into my text fields at runtime don't
match the coding of the characters I type into my program at compile
time, and I'm using the exact same keystrokes and the character looks
the same in both places.
I still can't picture what you're doing. I can see that you have a
problem with the triple identity of the character (Mac character 183;
Unicode character 8721 ; UTF-8 transformation) and that the problem
arises because you're working in a cocoa environment where UTF-8 is the
system's encoding for all characters, but I don't work with AS Studio
and you haven't described the steps that give rise to the problem.
That's why my earlier reply was so short.
With the Mac in its present transitional stage and Apple still catering
perforce for the old guard, things are going to be confusing for a
while, but there will come a time when the Macintosh character set will
be history and everything will be Unicode and it's worth finding out
how characters are encoded and why.
If you give more detail, I may be able to see what the snag is, but I
can't promise because I'm unfamiliar with Studio and not planning to
get more intimate with it.
JD
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