Hi,
 
Thanx for your pointers. I tried to test unicode features. It worked perfectly well. However, when i tried to do it for devanagri/telugu fonts i faced problems. can u or boris send me the right code or tell me the changes for devanagiri/telugu required in the code used for rendering Xiaoing.txt . also i donot really know how to read the font ascii codes(ie 16rFF etc.) for unicode glyphs. could u help me??

Hannes Hirzel <hirzel at spw.unizh.ch> wrote:
Shalabh,

Thank you for your roadmap which is comprehensive.
I will just focus on giving an answer to the first point.


Shalabh Raizada wrote:
> Squeak is an IDE running on its own virtual machine. It uses 8-bit
> 
> bitmap fonts. 

This was true for pre 3.8-Squeak. With Squeak 3.8gamma (Squeak3.8g-6527
exactly) and the package posted by Boris Gaertner (which contains an
experience report and some additional changesets,
a very comprehensive font called SofijaUC29 and a glyph browser)
you get a Unicode bitmap font solution.

I consider this to be a good start.
If I remember well the glyphs for hindi and telugu are in the SofijaUC29
font. Squeak had for a very long time only bitmap fonts and people could
do successful projects with it. One advantage of going for bitmap fonts
only is that you can run your Squeak application on any computer
regardless what you find preinstalled as fonts.





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