I think there is no point in making internationalization unloadable.
There is a better image for this purpose and it's named Cuis.
So +1 for merging the single and multi Character*
Also note that Pharo has greater plans about text composition
refactorings...

Nicolas


2013/9/2 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>

> On 2013-09-02, at 07:24, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> > How have we got into such a mixed and messy state? Did some experiment
> get partially worked on and forgotten?
>
> That is pretty much exactly what happened - back in 2005 for the 3.8
> release the m17n work done by our Japanese subcommunity was merged in. That
> work had existed for a couple of years so it was designed to be rather
> independent of Squeak's old system, rather than being a proper update of
> it. That is why there is much duplication of machinery. It got to a state
> that it pretty much worked fine, but no cleanup or simplification was ever
> attempted.
>
> FT2 is a distinct effort of utilizing the FreeType plugin that was never
> properly integrated (it's still not in trunk). HostFont had a similar aim
> but the plugin was only ever implemented on Windows. Scratch's
> UnicodePlugin is completely separate. And rudimentary Pango support is part
> of RomePlugin (for odd reasons) but has not been used in Squeak trunk (it
> is used to render paragraphs of non-Latin scripts in Etoys on Linux).
>
> I agree, it's a mess. Glad you're taking it on :)
>
> - Bert -
>
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