salut nicolas
One thing is sure, both clean-up and fast-up would result from leadingChar removal, and Pharo is the perfect place where this should happen. The main question left is what support shall we provide to East-asian-users... I don't know what works or what is broken already, and what are the required features exactly to support asian usage.
Me too.
What are Pharo plans?
We do not really know because we are not expert. Now I agree with you that making the system simpler would be better. Then once the system is cleaner we can probably find a solution. To me right now it looks complex and without test cases. Stef
Nicolas
+ any number you can imagine
It is easy to state that it is broken now and leadingChar causes harm. So nuking it will probably just inverse the problem situation but then it can be cured somehow by fixing the bugs. Handling the characters right in encoding is only one side of the medal. Characters and strings are still need to be comparable. To get this right it would mean to have support ICU [1] in pharo which is a good idea anyway. Well, if it is doable in a pluggable fashion of course.
Norbert