Luke,
I need to clean up some stuff. But see that attached picture. I saved an HTML I found on the net, read it and make up a WideString consists of these characters, and create a TextMorph.
How do you read it up and create the WideString?
Reading part is just like in a Workspace:
f := FileStream 'devanagari.txt'. f converter: UTF8TextConverter new. "this is set by default and not necessary, but to show the idea." str := f contentsOfEntireFile. str inspect.
The font we really want to use is this: http://nepalinux.org/fonts/samanata.ttf -- can you tell if that's supported somehow? e.g. import the font page of Nepali wikipedia into Squeak and take a screenshot?
If Pango supports, it should work.
We'll look more at the details you and Bert have sent tomorrow and then we're also meeting the experts who translate Linux/Gnome into Nepali. Maybe we already have all the details we need but anything extra might come in handy :-)
Great!
On Windows, Mac, and Linux, ot works. For the next version of Squeakland, it won't be there, unfortunately.
Out of curiosity -- how will the next Squeakland differ from the XO? We'd like very much to be able to "webify" the Squeak projects that we develop for the XO.
They are going to be almost the same. The features provided by Sugar won't be there but like running as a browser plugin should be possible, even the browser's world is somewhat fragmented in these days.
-- Yoshiki