[Squeak-ev] Re: SAR package for 3.6 beta

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Sam Aug 9 05:58:57 UTC 2003


Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>   Diego,

>>- When I switch to Spanish, I can't type Spanish letters (like Ñ, ñ, á, é,
>>í, ó and ú).  But I can when I switch to German, any tip?
> 
>   We need to create a class called Spanish, which can be just a copy
> of German.  The reasoning is that we are going to want to have
> language dependent case-insensitive string match functions and those
> LanguageEnvironments implements such language dependent stuff.

I finally had some time to take a closer look at the m17n 
implementation. Do we really need classes for some of the language 
stuff? My impression is that most of the conversion etc could be table 
driven?

Michael