On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:39 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On May 15, 2007, at 20:51 , Chris Petsos wrote:
We are trying to make Squeak work with Unicode...Yoshiki Ohshima has been very helpful till now and his suggestion was to let all the data that the platform (e.g. Windows, Unix etc...) is sending, enter the Squeak VM as is and deal with them there (in the image side) with InputInterpreter classes.
Yeah, I know, for some strange historical reason the Japanese folks like this approach ;)
This woud be a preferred approach for Indic languages too. The ability to switch layouts through hotkeys is crucial because of multiplicity of languages (over 23!). I could start a paragraph in Kannada layout, switch to US layout for English and arabic numerals, use Devanagari for Hindi and then revert to Kannada, all in a single sentence.
Currently, lack of Indic support in Squeak is a showstopper for public schools in my area.
Regards .. Subbu