[squeak-dev] Re: Pasting unicode (was Re: Pharo:: Re: Cuis update)

Bèrto ëd Sèra berto.d.sera at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 10:40:03 UTC 2009


Hi Andreas!

What's the image you are using? I had problems in Ubuntu as well, and it
simply was Latin accented chars. If we state a candidate image for reference
I can map the problems on it.

Berto

2009/4/17 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>

> BTW, the situation doesn't seem to be quite as dire as one might assume.
> Attached are two screenshots which were created by:
> a) Installing Dejavu first (download, click, choose "install font")
> b) Going to ru.wikipedia.org and el.wikipedia.org
> c) Copying and pasting the first article from the front page
> That is about the extent of functionality that I can verify and it does
> seem to work allright except from the Character cr glyph displayed in Dejavu
> (I'm not sure where that comes from).
>
> Perhaps half of the problems could be solved simply by installing Dejavu by
> default?
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Err, we know quite well about these problems. Typing unicode chars don't
>>> work because the utf32 charcode is not used by the released image. To paste
>>> unicode text on the Mac you would need the image support for the extendend
>>> clipboard plugin. But even if typing or pasting works, the fonts only cover
>>> the latin-1 range, not full unicode. Neither Freetype nor HostFonts nor
>>> Pango support is in the released image, nor did we standardize on one.
>>>
>>> All of these issues have been solved already, but did not make it into a
>>> release afaik.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. Goes to show that I haven't been paying much attention. But
>> if the fixes are there (can you send some pointers?) it sounds like a
>> perfect candidate to assemble those into 3.11 and get this stuff straight.
>> For fonts, there is Dejavu (http://dejavu-fonts.org/) which is based on
>> the Bitstream Vera family and should make for a virtually identical
>> replacement.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>


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