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 �� or as you know it "Greek".

I assume the most popular encondings to have would be Chinese and Hindu ?

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