[UPDATES] 3.8 gamma and 1 update

Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch
Wed Nov 24 23:05:32 UTC 2004


Michael Rueger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 3.8 has now been moved to gamma and one more fix.
>
> If there are fixes out there that are still missing or urgent bugs that
> you think should be fixed before final, now is the time to speak up.
>
> Michael


Hi

3.8gamma 6475 ?!?
Trying out various Unicode things doesn't work. Often emergency evaluators
pop up.

A code snippet like

s _ FileDirectory default readOnlyFileNamed: 'utf8test.txt'.
s  converter: UTF8TextConverter new.
s contents.

doesn't  seem to work. It is difficult to check as well as the default
font does not show simple Unicode chars like Greek letters.
MultistringCharacters show up with their internal encoding as value (like
1069548123).

The whole thing doesn't look like it is gamma...
(perhaps ceteribus paribus disregarding the Unicode enhancements, but that
was probably not the original intention)

Is the 3.8 image intended to be useful as is (and if so how) or is the
idea that people should just switch to 3.9 anyhow?

Boris Gaertner writes today:
<>
Squeak 3.8 is designed to use such fonts to display
Unicode strings, but I think that this still does not work -
at least I did not succeed to create or to use a large font.
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Hannes



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