On 12 Sep 2014, at 16:05, kilon alios <kilon.alios@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 Îλληνικά 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 <sven@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