re: Windows 7: Chinese characters replacing quotes apostrophes in English text

[FORD JR., CURT]

A little progress: the customer reports that

switched system locale from Simplified Chinese to English (US) to see some 
magic, as a computer magazine I had once read said it might work sometimes. It 
works! Those strange Chinese characters are gone and even the audio bars 
appear. But the ebook window stops operating everytime I turn from Page.12 to 
Page.13. It stucks for several seconds. After the locale switching, some of my 
Chinese programs don't work well any more. One program gets the Chinese 
charaters on its menu blurred, as is shown in attachment screenshot 3.1. 
Another program has no Chinese characters on the interface, which is presented 
in screenshot 3.2.

..so it looks like we should recommend that people switch system locale to 
English when using the module..

This one was created on April 14 2013 so it was probably Livecode 5.something - 
not sure unfortunately. Anyone have any idea whether trying again with 6.5.2 
might help?

thanks,

Curt
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Re: Windows 7: Chinese characters replacing quotes apostrophes in English text

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/8/14, 10:51 PM, FORD JR., CURT wrote:

A module which has been problem-free on most computers is showing odd
behavior on one client's computer: Chinese characters appear
replacing an apostrophe + s, or a contraction with an apostrophe, in
the English text, and also where there are opening  closing quotes.
m-dashes also aren't displaying properly.

The text was pasted into Livecode from an rtf document and is
displayed in the Charis SIL font, which our installer installs (other
parts of the text make clear the font is installing normally). It's
not editable or even selectable, and the module doesn't involve any
htmltext or unicodetext routines.

One thing different on this system may be that the user is running
Windows 7 Ultimate English version, with Chinese language support.

Any ideas on what's happening, or how to fix it?


I'm not sure it will work in this case, but you can try running the text 
through this:


function utf8decode pString -- convert utf8 to LC native
  return unidecode(uniencode(pString,UTF8))
end utf8decode

You'd probably need to do that after converting the rtf text to LiveCode 
native text.


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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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