[squeak-dev] Re: The future of Squeak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT license clean)

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Mon Jun 29 03:41:32 UTC 2009


At Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:28:50 +0200,
Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 
> For Seaside #leadingChar is a PITA because there is no way of knowing
> the language of the content the user entered. And it's a rampant
> layering violation. And it probably contributes to WideStrings being
> so slow. And it's not portable. And ....

  For Seaside you don't need to display the string so you can just
ignore it.

> And don't get me "but we need it for fonts". The only way to get nice
> fonts in Squeak is to avoid it and do it in C with char*.

  This is a very confused statement.  You better pass the font and
language information to the outside renderer to get the proper result.

-- Yoshiki



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