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Helmut, can you please suggest what we should change before fixing 1.8 with Beta stage.

With BlackBox you can have working directory (/USE), that is a kind of union mount technology over hosting OS. However often BlackBox users extensively patching and extending framework with subsystems, so there are troubles with upgrading standard version. To solve this issue F.V. Tkachov suggested ...

I returned these procedures to Strings, by importing Unicode.
We decided to keep 1.8 more compatible with 1.7.
And continue more radical changes with 2.0 version.
I will publish news about 2.0 soon.

HostLinuxGUI, ..., HostFreeBSDGUI Is there a difference between Linux and BSD GUI? Maybe it is better to name it HostGtk2GUI? There are some differences in libraries and in memory manage (Kernel), so there should be some separate Host for FreeBSD and OpenBSD . I think, that they can import HostLinu...

Yes, this is done! So I am suggesting to import Unicode to the Kernel, and use it inside Kernel. Unicode support code is big and it should be an option to run Kernel and String modules without it by assuming ASCII and IsAlpha(ch) = TRUE if ch >= 100X. Also where Unicode module source can be found? ...

The modules from the Host folders shall not be used in users projects, so the interfaces somehow are irrelevant. These modules now are spreading in the folders of the repository https://github.com/bbcb/bbcp/tree/master/BlackBox So it is hard to maintain repository and to make cross-compilation. This...

Actually, I think, that it will be good to make some steps back in 1.8 like Helmut suggests and fix it as beta. Then to change version to 2.0 and change interfaces as it will more suitable for cross platform version. There will be several Host folders for target OSes like HostWin32GUI HostWin32Conso...

Мне подход через хук кажется неверным, так как процедуры будут работать то одним способом, то другим... как-то это не способствует надежности... Translated: To me, the hook approach seems to be wrong, since the procedures will work in one way, then in another ... somehow this does not contribute to...

Maybe add hook interface to Strings module and implement ASCII fallback? I do not think that this will lead to reliable software... I pushed the problem to the OberonCore board https://forum.oberoncore.ru/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=6459&p=114468#p114468 I think that this is real problem, that Ke...

There are arguments, that Strings should not depend from the Kernel . With your proposed solution, it depends through the Unicode module. Module Unicode can be cross-platform, so there is no reason to bind it with Kernel , which realization by WinApi and libc is differ for some letters. The second a...