[squeak-dev] Some Win32 ClipboardInterpreter still use squeakToMac, why???
Tobias Pape
Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Jun 11 18:29:12 UTC 2019
Dear Yoshiki
> On 11.06.2019, at 20:23, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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> [1]: this is the most amazing encoding "hack" I have seen, and I think that's actually why Unicode for codepoints <256 is the way it is: that latin1 strings are just that: valid unicode. I know it was not done _because_ of Squeak, but Andreas obviously saw then chance and took it.
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> The story was a bit more complicated, but we documented some ideas here:
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> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/ohshima_c5.pdf
Thanks for setting me straight!
I didn't know this document existed, will read it. Finally I'll understand some design decisions, eg, regarding TTCFonts :)
Best regards
-Tobias
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