[Etoys] Squeak VM status concerning language encodings

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:19 , Luke Gorrie wrote:

> On 29/11/2007, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> UTF-8 is supported. The "etoys" script now runs the VM using the "-
>> encoding UTF-8" option.
>
> Can you sketch how to import unicode text into Squeak? Should it be OK
> to copy&paste from e.g. Firefox on OSX or Windows?


It works fine under Linux, and I cannot comment on Windows.

On the Mac, you need the ClipboardExtendedPlugin.bundle and a small  
fix to  ExtendedClipboardMacInterface>>readTextClipboardData like this:

readTextClipboardData
	^self readUTF8StringClipboardData

I'll push that to the 2.3 stream.

- Bert -

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