At Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:35:23 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

Antonio,

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Yoshiki, with the debian VM, actually when you type any character with accent you get: Ã

but I go on ignoring where the problem is: inside the image or inside the VM or inside the squeak.sh. Sorry.

Thank you for reporting. But, it is hard to tell what is going wrong. I do have an XO with spanish keyboard, and I installed relatively new image and VM from the repository. (Because I just did, I played with the very latest:

http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/etoys-3.0.2029-1.noarch.rpm http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/squeak-vm-3.10-3olpc3.i386.rpm )

and to me, on that XO with spanish keyboard, typing accented characters works. And on Fedora switching the keyboard layout and language setting and typing also works.

Can you check the versions of them, locale setting, and keyboard layout?

I happened to have access to a Ubuntu box yesterday, and tried Spanish keyboard input with reasonably latest Squeak and Etoys. I again switched keyboard to spanish by:

setxkbmap -layout es

and launch Squeak as:

squeak etoys-dev-3.0-2037.image

and entering "a" and "e" with ` and ' did work.

-- Yoshiki

Probably it is time to have another "work for jamon" trip.