multilingual Squeak (Re: Must _ go like the Dodo?)
ohshima at is.titech.ac.jp
ohshima at is.titech.ac.jp
Tue Mar 16 06:22:55 UTC 1999
Hi,
> But seriously, we can have our cake and eat it too (Yay!). No one is
> probably reading this thread anymore, but did anything come of the mentions
> earlier on the list about Unicode? Now that TrueType fonts are being
> integrated into Squeak perhaps those free non-Roman fonts on the internet
> could be used to make Squeak truly international. And Unicode has both the
> left arrow (U+2190) and the up arrow (U+2191). The question of which key
> to press to get these characters is secondary (I vote for CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> for _ )
This could be another source of the frame, but I want to
say that Unicode is almost useless for 'internationalization'
and 'multilingualization'. It is just a compromized way to
'localization' easier.
As for m18n, the way Mule and Emacs 20 use provides a good
suggestion.
OHSHIMA Yoshiki
Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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