[vwnc] Does anybody have an Experience running VW in Chinese language ?

Can you share experiences or maybe even some screen shots ?

Any information on the subject is greatly appreciated?

Many thanks,

--Mark



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We did a prototype for address information only in VW7.6.  That is, we had a limited purpose and did not attempt this for every text field.  It affected only a very limited number of domain objects, I believe exclusively in our Geography hierarchy (such as office locations in native language).  We could handle English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Japanese, but had enough flexibility in the long-term design to handle anything in Unicode (so we could do locale-based input methods).

The only way to describe our "prototype" was a bastardization.  I wouldn't even classify it as a hybrid.  We got it to work, but it was really messy.  VW7.7 should have considerably better support, but unfortunately the guru who did this no longer is with us, so I have no clue how much would need to change.  I don't even know where his image is that allows you to select the language and get the appropriate IME;  I do know that he had to work on the underlying widgets.  I just remember that it worked, to everyone's surprise.

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Subject: [vwnc] Does anybody have an Experience running VW in Chinese language ?

Can you share experiences or maybe even some screen shots ?

Any information on the subject is greatly appreciated?

Many thanks,

--Mark



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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Mark Pirogovsky <[hidden email]> wrote:
I'm a native Chinese Smalltalk amateur and I program in Chinese (mixed
with English) for fun using VWNC 7.5/7.6.  Normally I use Chinese for
almost all my own code and English for reusing lib code. Now waiting
for 7.7.
I also used ObjectStudio years ago. (And Io. Smalltalk has five
preserved words while Io has none. Io has better native Unicode
support).
I don't know what you're interesting to hearing about.
VW 7.6 has some problem in copy/paste dealing with Unicode and
auto-completing doesn't work in Chinese since one line of code
somewhere checking whether the text is Smalltalk code would expect
ASCII characters. When reading / writing files, Chinese filename will
fail. Windows title using Chinese will not display well re-openning an
image after it gets saved and closed. That's all I can recall now. In
short it works for me, not too bad :)

Here is a screen-shot.


Best Regards,

Jim G

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After using vwnc7.7 for over a month I am impressed by the great
improvement VW has made and all previous bugs now have gone. It's the
best IDE I've ever seen for native language programming. Thanks a lot.
If it's not VWNC I can't do anything I have done in my part time,
freely express myself and define my objects in my native Chinese
language. It's stable, and highly qualified and always a source for
discovering the spirit of Smalltalk and programming in general.

When I made a decision ten years ago on which languages to choose, I
thought Smalltalk could be my only lifetime language even when very
old in future. That's a right decision I believe after years of using
it. Now with best Chinese support I'm thinking if I can find time to
start a small project related to Buddhism.

Hope more and more people will get to know (yes it's so important to
let people know ) and use your great product.

Best Regards,

J G
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Kooyman, Les <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Best Regards,

Jim G

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