word breaks in Russian Unicode text
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 6:30 am
Step 4 in Devin Asay's article on Unicode at /spaces/lessons/buckets/1412/lessons/20441-Unicode "moves" two Russian words from one field to another:
set the unicodeText of fld "other" to word 1 to 2 of the unicodeText of fld "this"
I can reproduce his experience with the words that he used, but when I use the complete Russian alphabet, I find that the word breaks are not where I expect them. For instance, word 1 to 2 of this string:
АБВГДЕЖ ЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУ ФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
should contain 8 letters in word 1 and 13 letters in word 2. However, Devin's command, when applied to this text in field "this" results in this display in field "other":
АБВГДЕЖ ЗИЙКЛМНОП
As you can see, the second word is chopped off at its 10th letter. That character is just another letter of the alphabet--not punctuation or anything like that.
With this string of lower case letters in field "this":
абв где жзи йкл мно прс туф хцч шщъ ыьэ юя
the script produces the expected result:
абв где
but if I change "word 1 to 2" to be "word 2 to 3", the display in field "other" is in Chinese characters:
㌀㐄㔄 㘀㜄㠄
Am I doing something terribly wrong? If anyone is working with Unicode, can they share their experience or perhaps confirm my findings?
This is with LC 4.6.1, Windows 7 64-bit.
Thanks,
Slava
set the unicodeText of fld "other" to word 1 to 2 of the unicodeText of fld "this"
I can reproduce his experience with the words that he used, but when I use the complete Russian alphabet, I find that the word breaks are not where I expect them. For instance, word 1 to 2 of this string:
АБВГДЕЖ ЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУ ФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
should contain 8 letters in word 1 and 13 letters in word 2. However, Devin's command, when applied to this text in field "this" results in this display in field "other":
АБВГДЕЖ ЗИЙКЛМНОП
As you can see, the second word is chopped off at its 10th letter. That character is just another letter of the alphabet--not punctuation or anything like that.
With this string of lower case letters in field "this":
абв где жзи йкл мно прс туф хцч шщъ ыьэ юя
the script
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set the unicodeText of fld "other" to word 1 to 2 of the unicodeText of fld "this"абв где
but if I change "word 1 to 2" to be "word 2 to 3", the display in field "other" is in Chinese characters:
㌀㐄㔄 㘀㜄㠄
Am I doing something terribly wrong? If anyone is working with Unicode, can they share their experience or perhaps confirm my findings?
This is with LC 4.6.1, Windows 7 64-bit.
Thanks,
Slava