Hi Nicolas !

Thank you for this nice synthesis. I want to:
- display any arbitrary character inside Squeak (for example Greek
characters)
- input any character with keyboard inside Squeak
- exchange utf-8 encoded data with external world

Pierre-Edouard

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> > You can not do that. Squeak stores the language of a character in
> > every character. In a web application you don't know the language of
> > the input and utf-8 certainly doesn't contain it. You could take the
> > language of the image but that is random and has no relation to the
> > input. You could also set the language of a character to unicode (255)
> > but that only works for non-Latin-1 characters, these are interned and
> > all have leadingChar 0. Did I already mention that the leadingChar is
> > used for #=? So no, I don't believe you.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
>
> It seems most reasonnable to me to switch unicode leadingChar to 0.
> Why couldn't we just do that?
>
> Of course, all this does not really answer Pierre Edouard questions...
> Pierre, what do you want unicode for?
> - displaying any arbitrary  character inside squeak
> - inputing any character with keyboard in squeak
> - exchanging files made of arbitrary characters with external world
> (utf-8, utf-16 or other formats)
> - reading and writing filenames containing arbitrary characters
> - anything else?
>
> Nicolas
>
>
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