Hello,

> Hmm, I thought these new fonts/m17n were initially presented in 3.8
> patches.

  Yes.

> All of Squeak's present system fonts have absolutely no characters for
> non-ASCII?

  No.  They have some of those right half of Latin-1 chars.  When the
old New York font was the default, I bit-editted the original font
(oops) and the m17n packages for 2.4(c), 2.8 and 3.2 all had all
Latin-1 chars for New York.

  However, I didn't (or nobody) get around to do the similar thing for
AccuFonts yet.  As a result, today only part of the latin-1 is
covered.  Sorry for people from Icelandish^^;

> All languages and encodings I've tried always show as Win16-style
> corruption; blocks and squigglies as displayed binary.

  What languages and encoding?

> Perhaps I can at least copy NihongoSqueak's set over to where I can
> use it.

  They don't have too many code-points covered either.  Only for
Japanese and enough to give the illusion that it can support JIS X
0208 area with people familiar glyphs.

> It also supports IME through a plugin (ImmXx) for Windows;

  Minor note; this plugin is completely optional.  Its sole role is to
move the composition window at Squeak's cursor.  And we have the
similar mechanism for X11.

>  does the platform-dependance prevent inclusion to base Squeak?

  What does it mean?

> I'd love to have Japanese language
> support, NihongoSqueak(6a) does this /very/ nicely. I should look around to
> see if anyone is still working on this - for Squeak itself (3.8-3.9) or the
> merge of both.

  We are.  Especially, Abe-san and Yamamiya-san, and me (a bit), are
planning to make a rock solid version of Squeakland (3.8) based image
catered for Japanese users.  Same code base, a little configuration
difference and pre-loaded Japanese fonts.  The new school year in
Japan begins in April, so that is one of our semi-hard deadline.

  Along this course, I hope to add other language support.

  Speaking of '_' and '<-', I have my theory...

-- Yoshiki