mmm I realize there is a lack of progress on the font issue, however let's present a real world problem.
Raymond Asselin raymondasselin@sympatico.ca was kind enough to email me with concerns about character display using non-english keyboards (ie the rest of the world). I welcome feedback, it makes the VM a better place. Assistance in managing the mac VM support code is even more welcome.
Although this was a bug that I created in 3.2.5 Mac VM, further checking and feedback by Raymond pointed out that he could *NOT* display a capital accented E typed via his nifty french Canadian keyboard.
Why, well the default font which many have a licensing issue with, is actually flawed, and doesn't display the character for that ascii value.
So enter AccuFonts (again). I checked, due to the work of Duane Maxwell and other he went to the effort to ensure foreign characters actually *are* mapped correctly in the AccuFonts that he licenced for the Squeak community to use.
Therefore could I suggest we install AccuFonts into the 3.3. image to correct this support issue and kill that licensing issue. I belive we are now approaching a year since this solution offered, actually July 1st 2000 is when I asked my former business partner for assistance in this matter and got Duane to start the porting.
However many of you might not be aware that the existing solution is not only flawed from a license viewpoint (*who cares*) but is also flawed in execution (*perhaps a more serious issue*).
Mmm I'm sure this will kick off another discussion about free truetype fonts, or usage of *free* MS fonts etc, before one does that you should review the archives for many year(s) of discussion on the matter, and the non-solutions.
PS not that a license issue isn't a serious matter, but some really don't care, but if you can't ever type capital accent E then you might have a real barrier to Squeak usage.