Hi Norbert, i'm aware of the UTF infrastructure inside Squeak. I think i see recently some messages on squeak-dev about various problems with keyboard inputs. I have to dig in the squeak-dev mailing list in order to find the messages ...
2008/7/9 Norbert Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:44 +0200, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> UTF input (in VM and image) support in Pharo (or Squeak) is a must ! >> > What do you mean? There is support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 in the image. > The image itself changed the internal character format to a modified > Unicode (4 Bytes) Character. I assume that you don't need any conversion > for UTF-32. > > The problem is not the support but to know what encoding the unicode > has. If you have a Byte-Order-Mark this can be easy. Otherwise there is > no way around than to transmit a character encoding along with the data > or to use a convention for it. The etoys stuff seems like it can changes > the input to something unicode but this is a convention that is manually > adjusted. > > Do I understand something wrong? > > Norbert >> 2008/7/9 Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> > >> > 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 - >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Beginners mailing list >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pharo-project mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Serge Stinckwich Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] http://blog.doesnotunderstand.org/ _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
