Yes! "the unicodetext of the selection" is the answer. Forget the selectedText.
"the unicodetext of the selectedChunk" works as well. Thank you, Mark! S. > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 5:28 AM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: the selectedText of a Unicode field > > Hi Slava, > > You can try this: > > set the unicodetext of fld "YourSelection" to the unicodetext of the > selection > > or > > set the unicodetext of fld "YourSelection" to the unicodetext of the > selectedChunk > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here > http://qery.us/ce > > On 17 jun 2011, at 09:31, Slava Paperno wrote: > > > Briefly, here is the problem: > > > > put the selectedText of field "BilingualText" of this card into > > tCurrSelection > > --the field may hold, for example, the two words Боб Bob, which is > the > > string assigned to the unicodeText prop. of the field > > > > set the unicodeText of field "YourSelection" of this card to > tCurrSelection > > > > --alternatively: > > set the unicodeText of field "YourSelection" of this card to > > uniEncode(tCurrSelection, "UTF8") > > > > Neither alternative works for bilingual text. One version works only > for > > English, the other works only for Russian. In each case, the other > language > > is unreadable in field "YourSelection". > > > > In detail: > > <snip> _______________________________________________ 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