[m17n] RE: [ENH] SpanishLetters-dgd

diegogomezdeck at consultar.com diegogomezdeck at consultar.com
Sat Aug 23 21:16:20 UTC 2003


Hi Andreas,

> Hi Diego,
>
>> I only have one comment/question:  There are some characters
>> that today (using TTF) has squeak representation (Example:
>> Á Í Ó Ú) but in the stock fonts don't.
>
> Are those defined in the MacRoman character set?

I'm not a Mac expert (neither a Mac user) but juding using
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/macroman.html seems like they are
there. (I also checked http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html)

>> With all the translations projects around I think we have
>> to consider to switch to some TTF by default.
>
> If the characters are in MacRoman that's not a problem (all you have to
> do is to use the TTF fonts). If they aren't ... well that again raises
> the issue of which character set Squeak should use by default.

If I understood correctly we (we=squeak translators) are moving to ISO
(http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/m17npaper/node6.html).
Yoshiki, Michael.. are you there?


Diego





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