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 -
>> >>
>> >>
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