Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Versiojn 4 changes

[Ned K. <ne...@bi...>]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 10:57 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>   What do you mean by "they don't know their encoding?"  You mean that
> they don't know the font to use by default, etc.?
>
>   For the first 256 chars, the default font simply *works*.  For the
> other characters, this is not always the case.

That's not the case unless you have decided on a standard encoding. For 
instance, if you load Ian's X11 Fonts package into a stock image, you will 
have fonts that display the same Character as different glyphs, because the 
fonts in the stock image use the MacRoman encoding, and the X11 fonts use 
Latin-1.

> > How often do you find yourself inspecting individual Characters inside a
> > String?
> >
> > Even more to the point: how often do you find yourself inspecting
> > Characters that aren't inside a String?
>
>   To which point?  We should go with 24 bit immediate?  We should go
> with "naked code point + attributes" approach?

I think that we should probably stick to 24 bits and put other information 
into the Strings.

>   I guess you're saying that you like the *first* approach I wrote.
> Which isn't too different from my position.

Right.
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