MacRoman, Latin1, squeak fonts, and non breaking spaces.

Peace Jerome peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 10 00:26:30 UTC 2006


Hi all,

Ah, the eyes are going and the glasses are not up to
the task.

Correction: the default font shows 202 as a E with a
circumflex (the latin1 encoding). 

--- Peace Jerome <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Bert and other concerned folk.
> 
> In reading Bert's post about fixing fonts to show
> the
> invisible characters I was reminded of tripping over
> the nonbreaking space (nbsp).
> 
> See mantis report:
> 
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2446
>   
> 
> I use a Mac and MacRoman defines nbsp as char 202.
> And
> this can be gotten from Character nbsp.
> 
> In the default font in 7021 this appears as the
> British pound sign. There are some squeak fonts
> (atlantis for example) that will show a blank space
> for that character. 
> 
> Now Bert's fix uses char 160. Which is used by
> browsers as nbsp but the Latin1 standard I was
> pointed
> to has 160 in a range of undefined character values.
>  
> 
> 
> So the question is there is (at least one) bug in
> this. What is the bug?
> 
> 1) Should nbsp be define as the latin1 value?
> 2) Should squeak fonts have a way of saying what set
> of characters they represent?
> 3) Should the available fonts in squeak be
> consistent
> in choice of encodeing?
> 4) Should Character class be refactored to reflect
> the
>  ability to choose different encodings?
> 5) Should Character class be debugged to reflect
> Latin1 rather than MacRoman encodings? If so what do
> you do about MacRoman?
> 
> I have enough knowledge to know these questions are
> significant to the well being and maintenence of
> squeak. I am out of my depth in trying to suggest
> answers.
> 
> It would be good it someone who understands the
> issue
> more deeply would formulate a mantis issue around
> it.
> 
> Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace 
> 
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