John M McIntosh wrote: > No, it's just more smalltalk coding, the utf8-plain-text bytes need to > be translated into bytes according to
Somewhere in the call chain it is finally FFI calls as you illustrate below. How much would it take to have the primitive return the normalized UTF-8 string directly? Michael > > "Normalizes the string into the specified form as described in Unicode > Technical Report #15." > and ensure we return the bytes as UTF8. > > The FFI calls let the macintosh operating system deal with the messy > details. > > > http://unicode.org/unicode/standard/reports/tr15/tr15-18.html > also see > http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1235.html > > Say is that a precomposed and decomposed Unicode you have there, really > what does squeak want? want does the operating system want. > Choices choices. > > PS beware the utf8 to macroman or macroman to utf8 text converts in > squeak, I don't think the one that came from etoys does the right thing > can't remember, it's named wrong, does utf8 to ascii or something... > > > On 11-Feb-09, at 7:29 AM, Michael Rueger wrote: > >> Michael Rueger wrote: >> >>>> Well that *is* the extended clipboard support. Just need the >>>> smalltalk code to make the proper primitive calls to the extended >>>> clipboard plugin. >>>> You need the ClipboardExtendedPlugin.bundle >> >> Hmm, you still need FFI despite the plugin: >> >> readUTF8StringClipboardData >> | bytes | >> "utf8" >> >> bytes := self readClipboardData: 'public.utf8-plain-text'. >> bytes := MacCFString callMakeUTF8NormalizedStringViaByteString: >> bytes asString. >> ^bytes ifNil: [bytes] ifNotNil: >> [bytes asString convertFromWithConverter: (UTF8TextConverter >> new)] >> >> >> >> Michael > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
