[Cuis] [squeak-dev] fonts, characterscanners and dead primitive 103

[Juan Vuletich]

Thanks Ken for doing this.

I really need to find some time to play with and understand this. Same 
for Ropes. Both are great projects.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 9/5/2013 11:38 AM, Ken Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:38:32 -0700
> Casey Ransberger<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I believe this is correct, though someone (Ken Dickey maybe?) has been working on a simplified Unicode implementation for Cuis.
> Hi.  I'm not sure what the context is here.
>
> I wrote a package which adds rudimentary/basic support for Unicode.  (I have a hard time using "simplified" and "Unicode" in the same sentence).
>
> Basically, you can read and write utf-8 files and do simple cut/copy/paste editing.  Display uses a simple bitmap font, but with good coverage of most useful code points.
>
> You can make a cursor from a dingbat or edit a web page.   Let me know if I can help with anything.
>
>
> > From the Git README.md at:
>
> https://github.com/KenDickey/Cuis-Smalltalk-Unicode
>
> ================================
>
> Status
>
> Incomplete
>
>      Simple edit of Unicode files with copy/cut and paste.
>      NO font support (uses simple 'forms' from GNU UniFont).
>      Currently, there is NO grapheme composition. Unicode code points are displayed, including 'combining marks'.
>      Tested with Cuis 4.2
>
> Introduction/Overview
>
> Unicode is a complex system and strategy for computer manipulation of character and string information for human language.
>
> The code presented here has very limited ambitions:
>
>      Properly read and write Unicode data to/from disk.
>      Allow programmatic (code) manipulation of Unicode code points.
>      Implement reasonable sorting, searching, and other manipulation of code points.
>
> The support of Unicode text display is minimal. Fonts are not yet supported. Bitmap glyphs (16 x 16 forms) are from http://www.unifoundry.com/unifont.html
>
> ================================
>
> Cheers,
> -KenD