On 3/13/09, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg wrote on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:54:24 +0100
>> On 13.03.2009, at 17:57, Cédrick Béler wrote:
>> > I tried and it works... except instead of having a real left arrow, I
>> > get an underscore (strangely, this is working in pharo that way
>> > whereas in a fresh squeak dev based on 3.10, this isn't). Anyway,
>> > isn't the idea to have displayed "real" arrow   <-  ?
>>
>>
>> Looks like you need to teach Shout what character to use to display a
>> left-arrow in your preferred font, now that the underscore actually
>> displays as an underscore.
>
> Actually, the character is the same and has always been shown as a left
> arrow or as an underscore depending on what font you are using (as
> copy/pasting some code from a browser to this window, which is also in
> Squeak but uses a different font, will show). So the way to "fix" this
> is to go to background menu and play around with "appearence..." -->
> "system fonts..." and select one of the patched fonts for Shout to use
> (if that is possible - I have not tried it).
>
> About the general question, while I am very much in favor of moving
> beyond ASCII-1963 draft to the ASCII-1967 final standard, I would really
> like for us to go even further to Unicode so we can have left arrows in
> our code without messing up underscores. This change will cause
> backwards compatibility problems, however, and so only should be done as
> part of a larger move to new image/source formats.
>
> -- Jecel
1963 !
1967 !!!!
i can't belive we still are stuck in this mess, then again that is
probably why we are stuck. Standards, love them or leave them!

Karl