Re: Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.
It would, indeed seem to be the operating system as everything works 100% on Linux. Richmond. On 14.08.2018 23:51, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Mocked by an operating system, no less. If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a glyph in position hex 978 exists then glyph hex 978 is readily supplied; changing over to my own font (where a glyph is in place) I end up with a square: and this not by LiveCode alone. On 14/8/2018 9:50 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a different place from the letter it should have been if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with their pens . . . . . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has the Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424) seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my font when I do this: put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff" even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with: put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff" A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being able to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not convinced about that. All this on Macintosh 10.7.5. In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see what goes on there. Richmond. ___ 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
Re: Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.
Mocked by an operating system, no less. If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a glyph in position hex 978 exists then glyph hex 978 is readily supplied; changing over to my own font (where a glyph is in place) I end up with a square: and this not by LiveCode alone. On 14/8/2018 9:50 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a different place from the letter it should have been if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with their pens . . . . . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has the Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424) seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my font when I do this: put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff" even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with: put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff" A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being able to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not convinced about that. All this on Macintosh 10.7.5. In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see what goes on there. Richmond. ___ 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
Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.
Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a different place from the letter it should have been if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with their pens . . . . . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has the Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424) seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my font when I do this: put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff" even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with: put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff" A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being able to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not convinced about that. All this on Macintosh 10.7.5. In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see what goes on there. Richmond. ___ 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
