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

[Tobias Pape]

Hi,


> On 04.10.2018, at 15:05, Marc Hanisch <marc.hanisch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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... ;-)
> 

Ok, it should actually look somewhat like this when you hit 'ctrl-i':



In any case, '$i codePoint' (with i being your strange character) should work...


Best regards
	-Tobias


> 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
>>>> 
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