[Cuis-dev] [Ann] Unicode support in TextEditors, Files and Smalltalk code

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 21:21 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

>
> BTW, you're using World / Preferences / Use Unicode text, right?
>

Yes.. actually I’m using something equivalent, I have a comment in my
tiling window manager package with some doIts for setting up fonts,
preferences and unicode text.


BTW, this also makes me thing that the extended-ascii Characters are no
> longer needed, and they add unneeded complexity. When we move Cuis to use
> UTF-8 by default, we could make String and Character be only pure ascii
> (using just 7 bits). This will make conversions easier and faster. In a
> couple of months, I guess.
>

Great. Yes, I don’t need the extended ASCII characters any more.

Oh, one detail to keep in mind: Given that by default Cuis still uses the 8
> bit encoding in code files, any changes to #namedCharactersTable or similar
> can not be added to the update stream and the base image yet. A good reason
> to migrate everything to UTF-8.
>

Oh, right, good point. For now I’ll overwrite that method in one of my
packages.

Thanks!
Luciano
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