Hi Lawson,

That's an interesting distinction. I don't know if it's possible to write a
method that could make such a distinction. If you did you'd need an
international dictionary and you'd have to check all the words. A simplier
method could check for specific "character sets" and tell you what
character sets a GeneralString instance contains. A sort of population
distribution of characters and character sets.

All the best,

Peter William Lount
peter at smalltalk.org
http://www.smalltalk.org

p.s. Anyone got anything they want to contribute to
http://www.smalltalk.org?

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From: Lawson English <english at primenet.com>
To: peter at smalltalk.org
Subject: Re: Unicode support
Date: September 22, 1999 12:29 AM

Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> said:

>Hi,
>
>Now were talking. Awesome response guys.
>
>Arrays are not suitable for GeneralStrings because they are not easily
>expandable in size. Strings must be growable in size. OrderedCollection
>would be a better bet on being like a GeneralString or even a
GeneralString
>super class.

Do you make a distinction between Strings that are all of one language and
Strings that contain many languages?

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