[Newbies] Re: Dead keys on Ubuntu

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ofset.org
Sun Aug 5 15:44:48 UTC 2007


It seems dead key is not working with utf-8 encoding from the linux 
host. What we have found is to force to iso8859-1 before starting the VM

See some details at (use google to translate if needed):
http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Squeak_sur_GNU-Linux#Caract.C3.A8res_accentu.C3.A9s_avec_Ubuntu_Dapper_Drake

Hilaire

Fahr Jahrel a écrit :
> Hello, all--
> 
> I've been trying unsuccessfully for some hours to make my Squeak image
> accept diacritical characters under Ubuntu 7.04. I've tried all
> possible combinations of the -textenc, -encoding, and LC_CTYPE options
> I could but none worked. The diacritical characters either don't
> display or display incorrectly.
> 
> Ironically, if I run Squeak via Wine, the diacritical characters
> display correctly.
> 
> Any help pointing me to the right direction would be appreciated.
> 
> My system configuration today is:
> 
> Distro: Ubuntu 7.04
> 
> Squeak:
> 
> 3.9-8 #5 Tue Oct 10 11:56:09 PDT 2006 gcc 4.0.3
> Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006
> i686 GNU/Linux
> default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/*.so
> 
> Image:
> 
> Tried with the vanilla 7067 image, the lasted squeak-dev image, and
> even Ramon Leon's image. :-)
> 
> Any help is appreaciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fahr



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