Thank you for continuing to pursue this and especially for sending out these periodic progress reports. I don't have any particular use for the result at this time, but it is interesting nonetheless and is an issue of importance to many people.
Gladly. In turn, I'd like to thank everyone who's worked on Squeak i18n, and everyone who's helped me try to get a working setup.
An addendum to my previous email: copy-paste behavior is extremely strange with the OLPC vm and updated OLPC image. I can copy text in Russian or Japanese (for instance, from wikipedia) into Squeak, and it displays perfectly. I can copy the 'gibberish' that I typed and showed in the screenshot in my previous email into other programs, and it displays correctly in the other programs. However, if I try to copy correctly-display Japanese or Russian from Squeak into other programs, it simply doesn't work: the clipboard seems to be empty, and nothing is pasted when I click 'paste'.
Kat