Monthly Archives: June 2011

VASmalltalk – ICU, UCalendar 0.2.0

Posted on June 30, 2011 by schrievkrom

Ok, we have reached the version 0.2.0 and for this version most work has been spent in UCalendar class (including locales, timezones, Date, Time, DateTime) and I think, that the interface and layout for UCalendar is now stable and can … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU, RegularExpressions and Character support

Posted on June 28, 2011 by schrievkrom

With version 0.1.6 some of the regular expression API calls have been wrapped and you may now use regular expressions under Unicode. | regMatcher pattern source result result2 | pattern := ‘ab*’ asUtf16String. source := ‘ababab’ asUtf16String. regMatcher := URegularExpression … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU, UDateFormat

Posted on June 28, 2011 by schrievkrom

To my surprise is ws not possible to create the original DateAndTime printString format. It turns out, that ICU is able to create an ISO8601 compatible string for the time zone offset value (e.g. “+0100” is a valid zone description) … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU, version 0.1.5

Posted on June 28, 2011 by schrievkrom

I’ve just published version 0.1.5 at vastgoodies.com. It is nothing more than a normal snapshot of my actual work – and is under heavy development. I added the dll mskunicode.dll as a resource to this configuration map. As I mentioned … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU – Character class

Posted on June 19, 2011 by schrievkrom

after reading the specification I think that the Character class can be used for Unicode (at least in the first step) and therefore with version 0.0.31 I add a new library (mskunicode.dll) to the ICU wrapper and the only content … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU: NumberFormating

Posted on June 17, 2011 by schrievkrom

now to a pretty boring topic: number formating. When writing this code I stepped into the VA code page problems I mentioned in earlier posting. Formating numbers (double, integers) are the most boring stuff, but with currencies it becomes more … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU: Searching

Posted on June 17, 2011 by schrievkrom

searching of substrings in strings are perhaps one of the most wanted features in computer systems. Searching in UTF8 or UTF16 considering collation rules or locales may be pretty difficult. With version 0.0.30 I added more wrappers around the search … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – ICU: NumberFormating and Searching

Posted on June 17, 2011 by schrievkrom

With version 0.0.28 published yesterday I removed support for the VA-think-so codepage (e.g. 819 – see earlier postings) and now only converters for system platform and utf8 are available when starting the ICU wrapper – that should do the work. … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – CodePages – Part II

Posted on June 16, 2011 by schrievkrom

Ok, more or less VA is not really able to retrieve the current code page. They seem to go via the selected font, retrieve the char set of that font and get something like ISO8859-1 and via some strange stuff … Continue reading →

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VASmalltalk – CodePages …..

Posted on June 16, 2011 by schrievkrom

users of VASmalltalk can query its system, which code page they use. Running VA under a german Windows results in an answer: code page ibm-819. The native operating system is running (as you might know) under code page windows-1252. I’ve … Continue reading →

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