[Etoys] Squeak VM status concerning language encodings

[Luke Gorrie]

Thanks for the extra help!!

Now I've imported a big chunk of Nepali text from wikipedia and in the
morning we'll see if it appears as proper Nepali or if it's mangled up
somehow.

> The current Squeak text renderer does not support ligatures,
> composing characters etc. The Pango-based one should take care of that.

I'd like to understand the options and issues a little better -- How
soon is Pango support likely to be easily available for all platforms
- days, weeks, or months?

If it's not immediate then it would be interesting to hear a sketch of
how to add ligature, composing characters etc support directly into
Squeak for devanagari.

Thanks again!
-Luke