who's who on swiki

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Thu Mar 2 14:00:00 UTC 2000


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Bob Arning wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:08:37 +0900 Aran Lunzer <aran at meme.hokudai.ac.jp> wrote:
> >In fact, the o-umlaut doesn't display correctly on any of the systems I
> >have here - Goran's name appears as `G " an'.  Is anyone else having
> >trouble with this kind of character?
> 
> I have trouble, too, with my email client (I never got around to
> finishing the odd-characters-in-the-address mode). His emails arrive
> here with
> 
> 	"G÷ran" Hultgren <gohu at rocketmail.com>
> 
> as the sender, where the second character is "Character value: 247".

It should be 246, which is ö according to
	http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~ramsch/iso8859-1.html
while 247 indeed is the division sign.

> I'm not real sure about whether the double quotes in his name are
> correctly placed - I'll dig around for the rfc and check. The
> interesting thing is that if you use QuickPrint>>drawString:at: to
> render his name, it stops after the G since 247 is outside the range
> of Squeak's default font and QuickPrint doesn't continue after a
> stopCondition is found. So he shows up as "G" in my hierarchical lists
> and "Göran" when in a regular text morph.

Squeak uses another charset, you should call isoToSqueak for this ...

  -Bert-





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list