Unicode. Supported platforms

[Peter De Berdt]

>on 5/12/03 4:28 PM, jda at jda at his.com wrote:
>
>>>  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...
>>>
>>
>>  I don't know. I just forced my Carbon app to run in Classic, and it
>>  crashed when building a listbox with unicode characters (no more info
>>  -- just a frozen screen. Gosh, I've lived in X for so long I forgot
>>  how annoying OS 9 can be!). I think you'll just have to try it and
>>  see (you can of course use the RB 5.1 for 30 days to build your app
>>  as Carbon).
>
>So this is NOT true, that REALbasic supports Unicode on Classis,
>And they have write own code to do this.
>Correct?

Quite, but it's still buggy. MacOS Classic (the system itself) 
doesn't (by my knowledge) support Unicode. Unless I've missed an 
update for Classic somewhere along the road...
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Best regards,

Peter De Berdt
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