Hi Hannes,

It's looking like we should be able to conflate a bunch of existing facilities and code. The various Smalltalks seem to have approached Unicode like the old story of the blind men describing an elephant.

There are lots of components when are usefully described and dealt with, and if we can just put them all together it'll will be less new work, and we should get a more portable outcome, and a more robust solution.

On 7 December 2015 at 08:21, H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel@gmail.com wrote:

I updated the page

'Multilingual Squeak' http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/919

and some related pages.

Many pages have not been touched for 10 years. I realized that a lot of infrastructure exists but seemingly people are not aware of it or do not know how to use it.

In particular collation sequences are missing though there are LanguageEnvironments. Pharo being a fork has most of it. It would be an issue to check how much it differs and fold back or forth necessary changes. The infrastructure as such seems to be capable.

--Hannes