Begin forwarded message:
From: Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 9, 2008 12:20:52 AM CEDT
To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic
questions about Squeak." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Newbies] UTF support in Linux?
Reply-To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic
questions about Squeak." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Am 08.07.2008 um 23:09 schrieb smith02243:
Hi all,
In the Linux VM, when I try to input, via paste or the right alt
combination, non-ascii characters, like 'ö' or 'é' for example,
Squeak
merely shows 'o?' or 'e?' I researched into this and accordingly
chose a
font that supports UTF-8 and set the locale and VM command line
options
appropriately:
export LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
locale-gen en_IE.UTF-8
(...which claims that locale is upto date...)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
(...which outputs en_IE.UTF-8... done among other things....)
squeak -encoding UTF-8 -textenc UTF-8 -pathenc UTF-8
Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image
Now when I try to input the aforementioned characters I encounter a
debug
message: "Error subscript is out of bound."
However, I have set Squeak's language to Spanish and then German,
and the
characters display perfectly well in the menus. Although, the same
cannot be
said for the any files with non-ascii characters in the file
dialogue. So,
it seems it's an input problem.
Anyone with any ideas? Thanks.
This has only been addressed recently, and may not have found its
way into a release yet.
You need the very latest Squeak VM (3.10-1 at least). It supports
Unicode keyboard events (which are passed to the image as UTF32).
To make use of these events your image needs to be using
UTF32InputInterpreter. Evaluate
ActiveHand keyboardInterpreter
to see the currently used one. It can be changed by patching
Latin1Environment class>>inputInterpreterClass.
I don't know if this is in any official release yet, or scheduled
for one.
Some relevant change sets from the Etoys image seem to be
http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1713UnicodeInput1-yo.cs
http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1714UnicodeInput2-yo.cs
http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1925unixLatin1Input-yo.cs
http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1935unicodeFallback-bf.cs
- Bert -
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