I was in heaven (well, the nearest one could get without actually being dead) when, largely owning to the good offices of Mark Waddingham, LiveCode finally became 'totally' Unicode compliant.
Suddenly my life, especially vis-a-vis Devawriter Pro, but also for a couple of side projects dealing with Old Church Slavonic and Early Germanic dialects, because far, far easier and I did not have to continue pussy-footing around with those funny minimal pair things.
HOWEVER, what is not clear to me now, as the Unicode Consortium go 'totally bonkers' and extend their reach re scripts ever upwards, is whether the ability of LiveCode to cope with that is 'there' or it is stuck at , say, Unicode 14.0.
As I have been commissioned to teach a few short courses at a couple of universities on how to use LiveCode with what ethnocentric characters like me might term "Well Whacky Writing Systems" this is actually quite pertinent information (might EVEN get those institutions to stump up some money for licences).
Suddenly my life, especially vis-a-vis Devawriter Pro, but also for a couple of side projects dealing with Old Church Slavonic and Early Germanic dialects, because far, far easier and I did not have to continue pussy-footing around with those funny minimal pair things.
HOWEVER, what is not clear to me now, as the Unicode Consortium go 'totally bonkers' and extend their reach re scripts ever upwards, is whether the ability of LiveCode to cope with that is 'there' or it is stuck at , say, Unicode 14.0.
As I have been commissioned to teach a few short courses at a couple of universities on how to use LiveCode with what ethnocentric characters like me might term "Well Whacky Writing Systems" this is actually quite pertinent information (might EVEN get those institutions to stump up some money for licences).
Statistics: Posted by richmond62 — Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:54 am