Surrogate Pairs

[richmond62]

Some wag at the University of Plovdiv who insists on using Windows XP has asked me to implement some Unicode stuff for them: and for that I shall have to run off a standalone from either Revolution 4.0 or LiveCode 6.7.10: both of which will requite the use of surrogate pairs.

As in 2014 I ran up an LC stack to calculate surrogate pairs that is not a problem as such.

But where in LC 9 I might type:

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set the text of fld "FFF" to numToCodePoint(12345678)

in LC 6.7 I get stuck at this point:

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set the useUnicode to true
set the text of fld "FFF" to numToChar

I cannot recall HOW to enter the 2 values of the pair.

[richmond62]

Hey-Ho: replying to my own post, again, again, again:

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on mouseUp
set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of fld "FFF" to numToChar(13654) & numToChar(52334)

Those values are fake, for demonstration only.