[Newbies] Entering the caret (^) in Squeak on Linux

[Tobias Pape]

Hi

> On 04.10.2018, at 11:03, Marc Hanisch <marc.hanisch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I've configured my keyboard with 'deadkeys' (I need the caret for
> Esperanto characters like ĝĥ), so I already tried "^ + Space", but it
> justs displays a questionmark.
> When I switch to 'nodeadkeys' I can enter the caret. So this is solved
> for now ;-)
> 
> But I'm still wondering, why I can't type UTF8-characters? I thought
> Squeak is UTF-8 aware?

Well, the question mark is just Squeaks way of saying "i know the Character but I don't have it in the font"

you can do the following:

put a $ before the character, select the whole thin and hit ctrl-i. Then you see what character it is, typically by unicode point.

Best regards
	-Tobias

PS: I'd be very interested what ^+space produces for character :)

> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> Marc
> Am Do., 4. Okt. 2018 um 10:38 Uhr schrieb Christian Kellermann
> <ckeen at pestilenz.org>:
>> 
>> * Marc Hanisch <marc.hanisch at googlemail.com> [181004 10:25]:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> any ideas? I've tested the stable Squeak release on Ubuntu 18.04 and
>>> Fedora 28 and I can't enter the caret on both systems...
>> 
>> On some system (depending on your layout config) the caret is a
>> dead  key, that is, it will not get displayed when pressed once,
>> but hold as a modifier for entering keys like ấ (which can be
>> produced with ^ + a). Try typing ^ + space and see whether the caret
>> appears. If that get's too annoying try configuring a 'nodeadkeys'
>> variant in your keyboard layout preferences on your linux system.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Christian
>> 
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