Can we somehow directly use SVG in Pharo ?
Through Cairo/Athens (which is a vector graphics engine). Look at Athens-SVG package (it's part of of Pharo/Athens repository (which is in image), but the package itself is not loaded by default. Athens-SVG should be able to take SVG file and produce Athens drawing instructions, although I haven't used it in a while so I don't remember the details. Or you can look at Roassal2, which supports drawing shapes described with SVG Path (RTSVGPath) Peter On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 18 Feb 2016, at 15:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
I bumped into an interesting "Good, Bad, Ugly" comparison of Unicode support in other programming languages (though circa 2011) https://www.azabani.com/pages/gbu/
Reading it.
I read it. So, yes, we still have a long way to go (not that I didn't know, but still).
and this sparked a thought to wonder if the consortium would consider it worthwhile paying someone external (like that author) with broad cross platform Unicode experience to consult on getting Pharo to a pragmatic point where we look attractive in such comparisons, which may also provide a side-channel advertisement for Pharo when such comparisons are presented at conferences (??)
Maybe, I don't know if we should spent (marketing) money like that, but who knows.
We are too far off, it will take a while to get at a decent level.