Support of Compound Diacriticals In Unicode RVE's

DickBryant · Post by **DickBryant** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:39 am

This is a bit over my head but sent in by one of my users. Are TRVE's supposed to support this capability? If so, what do I need to do in my application for them to be supported?

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Yet Unicode contains another notable breed of characters: combining characters such as the U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS, generally depicted as a diaeresis floating over a dotted circle representing the character it combines with. Unicode can separate base characters from their diacritics. Our precomposed character U+00FC LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS may also equivalently be encoded as decomposed character sequence U+0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U followed by U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS. The combining character is supposed to change the shape of the preceding character.
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Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:43 pm

Yes, they are supported, at least they must be displayed properly in Unicode text.
(unfortunately, WinXP's API has bug in CharPrevW function disallowing to treat these two character as one in some cases; for example, TRichViewEdit these characters as one in Win2k, but not in WinXP, when user presses Delete key; but it should not be a big problem)

DickBryant · Post by **DickBryant** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:30 am

How can I enter a compound character like the one above to try this. It doesn't seem to work when I attempt to do it using the InsertSymbol rvAction and sequentially input a character followed by a diacritical.

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:26 am

The action inserts a protected symbol, so, if you type a diacritic character after it, it has different text style; so these characters are in different text items and cannot be combined.
This behavior can be changed only by modifying RichViewActions source code.
In RichViewActions.pas, remove the line:
fi.Protection := fi.Protection+[rvprDoNotAutoSwitch];