All,

 

After using FFI for a short time now I would say that it is a very important
part of the development platform.  There is a lot of power to being able to
communicate to external systems.  Consider talking to databases, report
writers, OS api's   .

 

Given that this is an important part of our platform, I think that the lack
of wide character support is a real problem for squeak.  Without wide
character support we loose the capabilities to communicate with systems that
use languages that are not supported by Ascii.  I personally saw this
problem in the Microsoft API where there is a lot of support for wide
characters.  It appears that my problem is solvable by not supporting non
Ascii string names however since we have recently started supporting wide
characters I'm asking the community to support wide characters in FFI.

 

I do not feel that I have the expertise or the understanding currently to
make this change so if anyone has the skills and time to make the change
could you please consider it.  Send patches to Andreas(andreas.raab at gmx.de).


 

Thank you for your time and consideration,

 

Ron Teitelbaum

 

Mantis Bug # 4379  

http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=4379 

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