Unicode. Supported platforms

[Richard Altenburg]

On 12-05-2003 14:49, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>>>  Encoding in
>>>  Under Carbon/Mac OS X, EditFields store all text internally in
>>> Unicode, which
>>>  is able
>>>  to represent a mixture of fonts from different writing systems.
>> 
>> So REALbasic support Unicode only on MacOS X for Carbon target.
>> There is no need to support Unicode on classic then.
>> 
> 
> I didn't look at this carefully, but with RB 5 (not 5.1) when I tried
> using unicode in Classic I got a fatal WASTE error. That, along with
> the fact that my own Pascal code uses CFString Unicode routines
> (which don't seem to work in Classic, either), will lead me to drop
> Classic when Valentina finally supports Unicode.

Can I still safely sell my shareware to MacOS 9 customers in that case, by
giving them the Carbon compile of my RB app?

I still develop on my trusted MacOS 9 G4 with RB 4.5.3 and will not update
this setup until after the first release of my scheduled projects. I have no
time to mess around with updates. But I watch the development of Valentina
and RB as closely as possible because I need them both...