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Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde [SOLVED]
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:31 pm
by atout66
Hi to all,
I have a field in which there are two UTF8 chars: <ʃ> and <ɑ̃>
I have this script:
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set the useUnicode to true
answer charToNum(the unicodeText of last char of fld "leTest")
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If I ask for the FIRST char, it's OK; it returns <643> which is the correct number.
But if I ask for the LAST char <ɑ̃>, and other last chars like <ɛ̃> or <œ̃> or <ɔ̃>, I get always <771> !
Could you explain me what am I doing wrong ?
I notice that the problem occurs always with the "tilde" char...
Thanks in advance.
Re: Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:03 am
by atout66
Hi to all,
If this problem can not be resolved, I would suggest that it be placed in the bug report section, what do you think?
Kind regards.
Re: Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:24 pm
by dave.kilroy
Hi Atout66
I think you will find it worth having a look at Fraser's latest blog posting about Unicode
http://livecode.com/blog/2014/04/02/exa ... ting-text/
I see you are developing with LiveCode 6.5.2 so to be able to use the new Unicode goodness you'll have to upgrade to LC 7
Re: Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:49 pm
by atout66
Thanks Dave for your link. I give it a look right now.
Re: Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:34 pm
by bn
Hi atout,
771 is the "COMBINING TILDE"
see:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... /index.htm
so instead of 2 you have 3 chars, the last one is the combining tilde.
Again I don't know anything about unicode.
But here is a littel stack that shows the numToChars and the html representation of
ʃɑ̃
Kind regards
Bernd
Re: Extracting an UTF8 char number with Tilde
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:21 pm
by atout66
Thanks for your help Bernd
Your approach is very interesting.
I'm going to see how to deal with it because my upgrade with LC7 is presently not really successfull
Kind regards.