[Cuis] About adding a Unicode handling porting layer

[H. Hirzel]

Hello Germán and Juan

As we have seen we can say that Cuis handles Unicode to a certain
limited extent.

I will post summary a writeup of what I know about it later. I am
interested in working/contributing to an add-on which loads Unicode
support into Cuis.

For general work I need

a)
an add-on so that Cuis can process arbitrary UFT8 text files. However
the majority of the content characters will fall into the
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15
range. So it is fine if the other characters are rendered as \unnn or &#nnn;

b)
Another more rewarding put maybe more difficult way  would be to
replace the String class with a class which handles 16bit characters
instead of 8 bit characters. In terms of structure all would remain
the same. Characters would be 16bit like in Java.


This will come later. At the moment I am working on ContentPack
version 2 which will run on Cuis, Squeak and Pharo.

Kind regards

--Hannes

> 2013/1/22 Germán Arduino <garduino at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks for the comments Hannes / Juan:
>>
>> I will look into it when have time, or if you prefer Hannes and want
>> to help I will integrate it when finish with Aida.
>>
>> Germán.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/21 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
>>> Hi Germán,
>>>
>>> Cool! Just a remark: Cuis does include conversion to/from utf-8 for the
>>> charset it supports (ISO-8859-15, covering nearly all the latin
>>> alphabets).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>
>>> Germán Arduino wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> The first versions of Sport and Swazoo working in Cuis 4.1 with all
>>>> tests green are ready to install.
>>>>
>>>> The changes I did in Swazoo are:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Avoid Unicode support that don't exist in Cuis
>>>>
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