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Multilingual Squeak

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2015

Squeak supports Unicode since version 3.8. Notes see below under the heading 2005.
Squeak uses a Unicode enabled String class. 8bit and 32 bit wide characters are dealt with transparently.

LanguageEnvironments
The TextConverter hierarchy
Class Unicode
Default encoding for files is UTF8.
Unicode support needs a VM which supports Unicode. A Squeak VM for Windows which supports Unicode was introduced in June 2007 by Andreas Raab and Chris Petsos http://forum.world.st/New-Win32-VM-m17n-testers-needed-tc63730.html#none

2005

By the efforts of Yoshiki Ohshima Squeak supports from version 3.8 (base image) onwards the work with many languages (m17n package).

The page http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~ohshima/squeak/squeak-multilingual-e.html contains an older latex2html'ed paper on the design and implementation. (to check how that paper still reflects the current design)

A little example: the image now contains 'MultiStrings' which have various encodings.

To write out a MultiStrings to UTF-8 now?

you have to use something like this

 
  f _ FileStream newFileNamed: 'foo.txt'.
  f converter: UTF8TextConverter new.  "This is not necessary as it is the default." 
  f nextPutAll: aString.
  f close.

Or simply,

  aString convertToWithConverter: UTF8TextConverter new.

(source: Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:39:28 -0800
From: Yoshiki Ohshima
Subject: Re: An attempt to support Czech language
)

Updated 24-Jan-05 hjh

Old stuff
See Multilingual Squeak version 3.6 - test report. The glitches reported here are fixed in the SqueakMap version.

Multilingual Squeak -- Translation HOWTO

Version for 3.6 (Oct 2003) see http://squeaklet.com:8080/m17n

Updated 24-Mar-03 hjh by using the information from Boris Gaertner
Update 1-JUL-03 MarcusDenker added Howto-link
Update 4-NOV-03 hjh Link to version for Squeak 3.6 added