John M McIntosh wrote:
> Well there are a number of questions here
> 
> (a) by default the macintosh squeak VM is shipped setup for macintosh  
> encoding of file names.
> I know other vertical app suppliers have set that to UTF8. However I'm  
> wondering if Pharo is
> UTF8 aware or uses the macintosh subset thus not supporting all valid  
> file names?
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=513

UTF-8, at least with the unicode changes I'm currently working on.

Where is this set?

> (b) The macintosh VM always supplies slot six with unicode data, the  
> unix vm, check with your support person?

It's the Mac VM from Squeak.org.

If you put a transcript show of the event buffer into the handleKeyboard 
logic you can see that slot six is nil on meta keys.
> 
> (c) The clipboard logic in the macintosh VM is using the 1984  
> clipboard logic.
> We would need to bring in the extended clipboard support from Sophie  
> to enable
> nice things like UTF-16 and ability to move pictures on the clipboard.
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=514

Oh, I thought the new Mac VMs supported Unicode in the clipboard logic 
as the other VMs now do.
How much effort would that be to add UTF-x support to the current 
clipboard logic?

Michael

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