[squeak-dev] UTF-8

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Its not possible to copy non latin characters into the workspace.
>
> Your image needs to make use of the ClipboardExtendedPlugin which does
> ship in current Mac VMs.

What's that? First time I've heard of it. It certainly doesn't ship in
the Windows VM but there is really no need to - as long as the clipboard
prims return utf-8, the image can do the conversions it needs.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 29.03.2009, at 20:57, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Its not possible to copy non latin characters into the workspace.
>> Your image needs to make use of the ClipboardExtendedPlugin which  
>> does ship in current Mac VMs.
>
> What's that? First time I've heard of it. It certainly doesn't ship  
> in the Windows VM but there is really no need to - as long as the  
> clipboard prims return utf-8, the image can do the conversions it  
> needs.


Ah, maybe I mixed it up. It comes from the Sophie folks and allows to  
not only copy/paste plain text but also rich text, images, and other  
stuff. I only know it works on Mac and Linux, no idea about Windows.

- Bert -

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:


> Ah, maybe I mixed it up. It comes from the Sophie folks and allows to not
> only copy/paste plain text but also rich text, images, and other stuff. I
> only know it works on Mac and Linux, no idea about Windows.

on Windows and Linux the VM clipboard primitives return UTF8, on the
Mac you need the extended plugin for that.
On the Mac you also need to convert the clipboard contents to
pre-composed unicode, all part of the unicode work currently only
available for Pharo, although the code should work in the mainstream
Squeak as well.

Michael