[HACK] Unicode keyboard input and fonts (was: Re: Keycaps??)
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Jun 13 19:51:21 UTC 2006
Well since we are working with macroman, unicode and latin-1 let me
remind folks of an outstanding issue with VM File names/paths.
On the mac the vm is shipped with VM path names set to be macroman,
and you can change that choice to latin-1 or utf-8.
People that changed the VM to latin-1, then discovered that there are
characters like (option-f) ƒ which are valid
characters to put in folder names/file names that then will NOT
convert from utf-8 to latin-1, the conversion fails and you're toast.
Ok, fine leave as macRoman, then add in that you are taking the
macroman path name and pretending it's latin-1, this means of course
what you see in the file browser isn't reality.
Fortunately the character code isn't tampered with it's just
displayed wrong, so using the path does the right thing.
Likely one might consider using utf-8, and then ensuring display
usages of pathnames do the right thing....
On 13-Jun-06, at 10:09 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> I just hacked a bit of Unicode support into the truetype fonts. See
> attachment.
>
> - Bert -
>
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