[Newbies] [[ru:Планктон]] = [[ru:????????]] in workspace.

[Tobias Pape]

Hi

> On 13.09.2019, at 11:53, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Tobias, thank you. I will verify that Monday 
> 
> Is bringing Cyrillic character support to squeak workspace a big job? If it's just tore grunt work, I can contribute

Basically, it is "just" a font problem, things display if one uses a font with the necessary characters...


> 
> 
> ---- On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 01:47:57 -0400 Das.Linux at gmx.de wrote ----
> 
> 
> > On 12.09.2019, at 23:52, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Just tested it on my local copy of SeasideDoc and it does not display correctly.
> 
> You most probably have to tell you string to be converted to utf8, because that is typically what 
> is being served via Seaside and rendered by browsers.
> 
> IIRC, you can do that by setting the UTF8 Codec for the Seaside Adatpor or simply by converting the 
> string:
> 
>     '[[ru:Планктон]]' squeakToUtf8
> 
> Best regards
>     -Tobias
> 
> > 
> > I will figure it out another day.
> > 
> > Is it a big job to incorporate other Character Sets into Squeak?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---- On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:26:35 -0400 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote ----
> > 
> > Hi tty
> > 
> > > On 12.09.2019, at 19:09, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all.
> > > 
> > > I am starting the task of parsing Wikimedia interlanguage links per : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext#Redirects
> > > 
> > > stuff like: 
> > > 
> > > [[fr:Plancton]]
> > > [[de:Plankton]]
> > > [[ru:Планктон]]
> > > [[simple:Plankton]]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > when I paste this into a Workspace, I get:
> > > 
> > > [[es:Plancton]]
> > > [[fr:Plancton]]
> > > [[de:Plankton]]
> > > [[ru:????????]]
> > > [[simple:Plankton]]
> > > 
> > > What should I do?
> > > 
> > 
> > This is a font problem. The default font in Squeak lacks Cyrillic characters.
> > If you paste the Russian version and make it a string and inspect it, as in 
> > '[[ru:Планктон]]' inspect
> > 
> > you will see that from index 6 on, the Unicode codepoints of the Cyrillic characters are actually correct, but just cannot be displayed.
> > 
> > best regards
> > -Tobias
> > 
> > > thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > tty
> > > 
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