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

[H. Hirzel]

Hello Marc

You write:

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


In case you have problems getting what Tobias suggests to work it
might be easier to evaluate (i.e. select and choose 'do it')

     ' ?' inspect
     'g?' inspect

Regards

Hannes

On 10/4/18, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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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