Unicode. Supported platforms

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/12/03 4:12 PM, Richard Altenburg at valentina at brainchild.nl 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?

Richard,

What we discuss is support of Unicode for Valentina on Classic.
Most probably this feature will not exists for Classis.

But you still should be able to use Valentina on Classic as now.
Just no Unicodes...

> 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...

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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