On 12 Sep 2014, at 16:05, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not in any urgent need as I rarely use (like almost never) my native > language in reading or writing when it comes to anything related to > computers, apart from facebook friends. But I would like to see it added to > pharo , its Ελληνικά or as you know it "Greek". So that would be ISO 8857-9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7 - http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-7.TXT) then, right ? Is this nice to have or really necessary (as in used by everybody using the Greek language) ? > I assume the most popular encondings to have would be Chinese and Hindu ? I think this something that (native) speakers should help with ;-) Remember we have full Unicode Character/String capable classes, as well as good UTF-8. Those cover all languages, in theory. The question comes down to which older encodings are still really used/necessary today. > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > ZnCharacterEncoder and its subclasses in the package > Zinc-Character-Encoding-Core (a standard part of Pharo) have the following > features: > > - proper Unicode Character/String to/from byte(s) encoding/decoding > - calculation of encoding size per Character/String > - proper handling of holes in tables with exceptions (strict/lenient) > - properly backing up one character on a binary stream > - simple, efficient, documented > - convenience API > - optimisations for some encodings > > Together, they support the following encodings: > > - utf-8 > - utf-16 (big/little endian, bom detection) > - null > - iso-8859-1 (latin-1) > - iso-8859-2 (latin-2) > - mac-roman > - cp1250 > - cp1252 > - cp1253 > - koi8r > - iso-8859-7 > - iso-8859-15 > > The question is, what other encodings do you want/need ? > > There is already a request to add CP1251. > > New byte encoders are easy to add, based on the official Unicode mappings > that can be found here: http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS (these are > automagically parsed). > > Please help us make Pharo more international friendly. > > Sven > > > >
