V4MD WIN 2.0 b1. Wanted?

[Jeff Gomes]

At 1311 +0300 05/13/2004, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>...
>Director developers, please share info about Director and Unicode to us.
>What news?
>What promises from Macromedia?
>What workarounds?
>Any other Xtra can use at least UTF8?
>Advices?
>...

A code example of the current state of the art for using unicode in Director was provided by Daniel Plaenitz in Direct-L on 10 May in the thread 'Unicode fonts'.  It can be done, but it is certainly a kludge.

As others have noted, with Director 10 the unicode strings can be protected from Lingo by handling them exclusively within the Javascript syntax.  Input from text files is accessed with the Flash XML object's src property.  Keyboard input and display are handled by Flash text fields.

-Jeff