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From: Q8N@PSUVM.BITNET (Scott D. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Foreign language characters
Message-ID: <33079Q8N@PSUVM>
Date: 12 Feb 88 06:19:16 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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I am getting involved in consulting with someone that wants to write
a HyperCard stack to teach Hindu.  The only problem I see is in
picking up phrases in Hindu from a field, reading the field contents
into a Script, and performing some type of conditional decision
based on the contents of the field.
     
In particular, I am referring to the limitation of not being able to
change to the Hindu font I am using in the Script.  Can I simply get
around this by typing in the keystroke equivalents that produced the
Hindu field text?  Also, how could I get HyperCard to respond from a
Script to the stack user in Hindu?
     
Thanks in advance for any info about writing scripts that use text
characters other than the "standard" ones.
     
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Scott Camp, Center for Computing Assistance in Liberal Arts,
Penn State (Q8N@PSUVM.BITNET), 814-863-0393