Signe,
You can still do it without one of these methods. Let's take your
case as an example. Say you have a field "poundfield" that contains
your text with # for each n-umlaut. Now create another field, say
field "result", and set its textFont to a unicode font as in #1 of my
first post, below. Now create a button with the following script:
on mouseUp
get fld "poundfld"
replace "#" with "nÃà" in it
set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
end mouseUp
Barring any automatic Mac to PC character substitutions (by Rev or by
your mail client,) this should result in the #'s in your poundfield
being replaced by the character you want. If it doesn't work as
posted here, the three characters in the 'with' part of the replace
statement are ASCII-110 ASCII-204 ASCII-136. So you could generate
them reliably by doing this:
on mouseUp
get fld "poundfld"
put numToChar(110) & numToChar(204) & numToChar(136) into tChars
replace "#" with tChars in it
set the unicodeText of fld "result" to uniencode(it,"UTF8")
end mouseUp
Hope this saves you from a kludge. ;-)
Devin
On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
Hello Devin,
I'm afraid none of the methods can be used. I have lots of texts in
which I use "#" for the n with umlaut. These will be fed into
fields on the fly appearing with the correct letter instead of the
"#". So far I have used images for various text sizes which work
reasonably well. My problem arose when I wanted to select a line in
the text, then having to change the colour of the image as well. So
I think I'll stick to the images, just double the sets of images
with selection colours as well. Thanks for all the help from you
and Mark.
Signe Marie Sanne
Den 28. feb. 2007 kl. 18:57 skrev Devin Asay:
You *can* do this in Rev. Here's how I did it in OS X (I'm using
rev 2.8 in OSX 10.4.8):
1. Create a field and set its textfont to a unicode font:
set the textFont of fld "unistuff" to "Verdana,unicode"
2. Enable the Unicode Hex Input method in the International system
prefs under the input tab. This will cause the Unicode Hex Input
method to appear in the input menu (the one with the little flags
on the right side of the menubar.)
3. Position the insert cursor in the field, choose Unicode Hex
Input from the input menu, then type :
n (then, holding alt/option key down) 0308
the n with umlaut should appear.
Sorry, don't know how to do this via direct input in Windows.
However, the following should work on either OS:
1. Create a UTF-8 encoded text file that includes the desired
character. I used BBedit, making sure I chose a font that
supported unicode (Tahoma or Lucida Grande should work) and that
the document encoding was set to UTF-8, then created the n-umlaut
character just as I described in #3 above.
2. Save the file to disk.
3. Read it in to your rev fld using the uniencode() function.
I've created a stack that shows how to do this.
go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/testUnicode.rev";
You may also want to download the utf-8 file from http://
revolution.byu.edu/unicode/textUni.ut8. This is the file that the
sample stack reads from.
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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