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From: Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> Date: July 9, 2008 12:20:52 AM CEDT To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak." <beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [Newbies] UTF support in Linux? Reply-To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak." <beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
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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