On 9-Feb-09, at 8:52 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:

> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> Well there are a number of questions here
>> (a) by default the macintosh squeak VM is shipped setup for  
>> macintosh  encoding of file names.
>> I know other vertical app suppliers have set that to UTF8. However  
>> I'm  wondering if Pharo is
>> UTF8 aware or uses the macintosh subset thus not supporting all  
>> valid  file names?
>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=513
>
> UTF-8, at least with the unicode changes I'm currently working on.
>
> Where is this set?

http://smalltalkconsulting.com/html/squeakinfoplist.html

SqueakEncodingType


>
>
>> (b) The macintosh VM always supplies slot six with unicode data,  
>> the  unix vm, check with your support person?
>
> It's the Mac VM from Squeak.org.
>
> If you put a transcript show of the event buffer into the  
> handleKeyboard logic you can see that slot six is nil on meta keys.

meta-keys not sure what you are refering to? How about an example?


>
>> (c) The clipboard logic in the macintosh VM is using the 1984   
>> clipboard logic.
>> We would need to bring in the extended clipboard support from  
>> Sophie  to enable
>> nice things like UTF-16 and ability to move pictures on the  
>> clipboard.
>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=514
>
> Oh, I thought the new Mac VMs supported Unicode in the clipboard  
> logic as the other VMs now do.
> How much effort would that be to add UTF-x support to the current  
> clipboard logic?

Well that *is* the extended clipboard support. Just need the smalltalk  
code to make the proper primitive calls to the extended clipboard  
plugin.
You need the ClipboardExtendedPlugin.bundle


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>
> Michael

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