Re: Improving i18n support (Was: Re: Christmas

Larry W. Virden wrote:
Donal and Richard, any thoughts on additions to Tcl as shipped to
improve the internationalization and Unicode support within core Tcl?

Well, for i18n there's probably room for better number and currency
format handling, but the facilities are there already for most of the
other bits and pieces you need. Moreover, Tcl's UNICODE support is
excellent; the only time it is surprising to people is when they try to
apply the odd workarounds used in other languages and have to to learn
that Tcl gets it right for them already. :-) I don't think that there
should be transliteration tools (like the *lish stuff) in the core, not
when it can go into tcllib instead just fine (I don't regard it as a
tool for a serious message catalog engine; it's just a convenience for
speakers of western european languages).

When it comes to Tk, there's *lots* still to be done, starting with a
bidi text renderer. Automated ligature support (and yes, this makes
cursor location and selection ranges *tough*) would be a bonus too.

Donal.

.

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