On 9/5/13, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> After simplifying the scanning code a bit I'm looking into why we have the
> seemingly insane situation of two parallel hierarchies of CharacterScanner.
> So far it looks like there are no really substantive differences between
> CharacterScanner and MultiCharacterScanner and their subclasses. This seems
> like a mistake somewhere; certainly it could be mine, missing something
> important.
>
> What is the intent of MultiXXXXX ? What is CombinedChar for?

They are part of the m17n package done by Yoshiki Oshima and
introduced into Squeak 3.8


http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/756

also check out the mailing list archive searching for
    m17n



 Are they,
> honestly, still needed? Or should the older versions be removed instead?

Maybe. I assume there was a reason for not removing the older classes.

Who
> wrote the new classes and is that person still maintaining them? Is he/she
> still around here?
>
> tim
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