Philippe Marschall pravi:

>> Look at this Aida/Scribo  multilingual demo served from Squeak image:
>> http://demo.bioskop.fr/wiki/wiki.html, see specially Japanese and
>> Russian  text. Even Japanese urls are working correctly:
>> http://demo.bioskop.fr/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88.html
> 
> That's just external representation, that tells absolutely nothing
> about internal representation and the implementation. I could easily
> the the same result on a Squeak 3.7.

For this you need WideStrings and proper UTF-8 converter. Does Squeak
3.7 has that?

>> About leading character, I even don't know what is that, except in
>> theory. That is, I never encounter this character as a problem when
>> porting Aida and its i8n support to Squeak.
> 
> How can you seriously say everything is working fine when in practice
> you can't say what is happening and don't know how Strings and
> Characters work in Squeak? I find that quite dubious hyping.

Not hype at all but pure reality. And coming from country where we
already need Unicode characters above 256, you can be sure that I know
what I'm talking about. If there would be some problem, I would be the
first encountering it. But there are no problems with Unicode strings
prepared by Aida, so why should I bother? This is like a premature
optimization for me.

Note also that Masashi Umezawa, a Japanese guy, made a preview and few
modifications to Aida to work well with Japanese writing, in all aspects
from Urls to the content. Because of his work I'm therefore even more
sure that we did the Unicode support right!

Janko

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si