Vision2 and Unicode

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Introduction

Have a look at the description made for the WEL library. The same applies to EiffelVision2.

Readings

Unicode

Milestones

M1: April 25th

M2: May ???

  • implement multi screen support for Vision: Multi screen support
  • collaborate with the internationalization team (TODO add link to their project page)
  • write a decent STRING_32 implementation for
    • string comparisons
    • lower/upper case conversion
    • some of it is already in Gobo but not completely as efficient as it should
  • To be completed by the team


Team

Everyone intrested in this project is welcome to join our mailinglist es-vision@origo.ethz.ch

Communication

We agreed to communicate via IRC (orwell.freenode.net/es-vision). For Windows user there are different programs available. For example:

Linux user (for ex.) one of the following

  • xchat
  • irssi (console-app.)

after downloading and installing, you can connect to a server with the command

/server <serveradress>

where <serveradress> is (for ex.) orwell.freenode.net (more freenode servers).

to enter our channel, type:

/join #es-vision

also you can set/change your nickname with

/nick <new_nick>

where <new_nick> is you nickname.