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.