So we should start with that. Fwiw - icu also provides time and date format internationalization and some other utilities. It is a very comprehensive library. Sent from the road
On Dec 9, 2015, at 07:03, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/8/15, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard@mac.com> wrote: I just want to second Dale's endorsement of the ICU library. It has been around a long time (originally developed by Taligent) and it provides the base unicode capabilities for an awful lot of software.
I think it would make more sense to bring icu into Smalltalk as a NativeBoost library than to spend resources reimplementing and maintaining it.
-Todd Blanchard
ICU already seems to be available for Smalltalk accessed through wrappers
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6234
--Hannes
On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:20, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
On 12/07/2015 11:31 PM, H. Hirzel wrote: Dale
Thank you for your answer with links to the ICU library and the notes about classes in Gemstone. Noteworthy that you have a class Utf8 as a subclass of ByteArray.
I understand that Gemstone uses the ICU library and thus does not implement the algorithms in Smalltalk.
I am currently looking into what the ICU library provides.