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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/8/15, Todd Blanchard <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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. >> >>
