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

Marc Hanisch marc.hanisch at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 4 13:05:37 UTC 2018


Thans Tobias,

I did now the following in the Workspace:

I entered "^ ", Workspace displayed: " ?",
I entered "^g", Workspace displayed: "g?"

Putting the $ before the ? and inspecting the character just displays
the same character again, for example self has the value "$?" in the
inspector... no unicode point, just the questionmark... ;-)

Best regards,
Marc
Am Do., 4. Okt. 2018 um 14:38 Uhr schrieb Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>:
>
> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> May you be peaceful, may you live in safety, may you be free from
> >> suffering, and may you live with ease.
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