Fonts (was Re: [etoys-dev] Wording in Clouds)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 31.07.2009, at 18:53, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Friday 31 Jul 2009 9:49:29 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> $ squeak -help | grep UTF
>>> -pathenc <enc>        set encoding for pathnames (default: UTF-8)
>>> -textenc <enc>        set encoding for external text (default:  
>>> UTF-8)
>>
>> This is the VM setting for the encoding of file names and the
>> clipboard. This has nothing to do with the contents of files. The
>> contents is not interpreted by the VM.
> All major Linux distros have settled on UTF-8 as default encoding  
> for text
> files. Isn't it time we switched too? It could help flush out  
> encoding bugs in
> Squeak code. CJK locales can use textenc overrides (or this could be  
> set in
> the startup code).


One issue is that interpreting any file as utf-8 is not binary-safe.  
When I wrote we interpret as latin-1 this actually meant we do no  
converting at all, the bytes in the file correspond directly to a  
character in the file view. After all, this is not a text file editor.

- Bert -