On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> On Jun 25, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I would group per language.
>
>
In a first step, of course :).  If we go deep, I could say that the
triplicated hierarchy is smelling...


>
> > - 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?
>
> I should say that I did not spend enough time on stream mess


> > - 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?
>
> :) So lovely. What does Imm mean?
>

Dunno :/


> >
> >
> > Guille
>
>
>

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