Thanks richard. I do not understand font and related issues but having 
_ or and <- inconsistently is a problem.
So what would be the solution?

Stef
On Lundi, oct 13, 2003, at 01:54 Europe/Zurich, Richard A. O'Keefe 
wrote:

> We've been through all this before, but it's worth making the
> distinctions one more time.
>
> There are four different things:
>
> (1) Which KEY you press for the assignment symbol (or the return 
> symbol);
> (2) which GLYPH is rendered on the screen;
> (3) which CHARACTER(s) Squeak programs see in a string;
> (4) what ENCODING is used in a file.
>
> There is also a rather nasty font bug:
> some of the "Squeak fonts" display DIFFERENT glyphs at different sizes.
> If anything is calculated to make Squeak look amateurish, that is.
> For this reason, the old Squeak fonts must go; I hope that 3.7 will
> use the new free fonts out-of-the-box.
>
> The fact that there isn't any left arrow or up arrow key on my keyboard
> really isn't relevant.  (Actually, my keyboard has 3 keys labelled left
> arrow and 4 labelled up arrow.)  My keyboard doesn't have any key
> labelled "e" either, but that doesn't stop me typing "e".  Nor does it
> have any key labelled with any accented letter, but that doesn't stop 
> me
> typing the full range of ISO 8859-1 printing characters.
>
> The important issues appear to be the external encoding.  We've talked 
> for
> a long time about switching to Unicode/UTF-8.  The book "Learning 
> Cocoa"
> says "Cocoa uses Unicode ... as its native character set"; Windows also
> does this; Unix systems like Linux and Solaris support Unicode to a 
> greater
> or lesser degree also.  If you want to deal with HTML 4, let alone 
> XHTML or
> XML in general, Unicode it is.  (Of course, unlike dear old Unicode 2 
> with
> its 16-bit character set, Unicode 4 really requires 21 bits per 
> character.)
> Supporting Unicode isn't going to be easy, not at all.  But won't we 
> look
> the great idiots if we go back to the dead days of ASCII-only 
> (abandoning
> left arrow for colon equals) at a time when the rest of the world has
> access to a large character set including a full range of arrows?
>
> The internationalisation steps being taken for 3.7 are HOORAY! GREAT 
> STUFF!
> wonderful, but they are only the beginning.
>
>