Hello. What is responsibility of environments (russian, japanese) classes. Why its needed? Why converter classes not enough?
For example, I can write russian text at workspace without setting any specific russian environment. I only need specific fonts for this. 2012/6/25 Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to understand the Multilingual packages to get things a bit > more reorganized. This way we can start to have a simpler and > understandable kernel. So, > > - We have all environments(greek, chinese, japanese, korean, russian...) > in the same package. Each environment has it's associated charset, and > text converter, which are in different packages. Also, each text converter > has a table of conversions between unicode and the encoding. But all > converters are together, and all charsets are together. > > What about putting related things together? I mean, japanese converter > with japanese environment with japanese charset in one package. Same with > russian, korean, chinese... Does it make sense? This way we should be > able to unload one of them if we do not really need it. > > - MultiByteFileStream and MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream are inside > Multilingual-TextConversion? Even, they do the same on top of a file or a > memory stream of bytes (or they say so in the comment :^D )... > > What about merging them? using a decorator? They have a lot in common... > :/ Put them in a different package? > > - Just curious. ImmPlugin is working or shipped with vms? Not for macos, > because there is no macos implementation. Then, the class comment says: > > *"On Windows, the plugin is not provided in the shipped VM's, and its > current whereabouts are uncertain. > > On Unix, the only implemented behaviour is setting the position when > over-the-spot precomposition of characters is the current mode. > > In the VM, the mode is chosen to the first available valid mode returned > by the X Server, so whether this is actually relevant at all depends on the > X Server.*" > > So, does someone use it and see value on keeping it? > > > Guille >
