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

[Marc Hanisch]

Hello Tobias, hello Hannes,

Strange, my inspector window does not show the code in its title, but
printing the codepoint of the questionmark shows me the value '770',
which is the "COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"
(http://www.codetable.net/decimal/770) whereas the correct caret has
the value '94', which is "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"
(http://www.codetable.net/decimal/94) - which somehow makes sense ;-)
So it seems to be an issue with the input system, not with Squeak.
Although I'm really wondering how I can acces the "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"
with the 'deadkeys' keyboard layout...

Thanks for your help,
Marc


Am Fr., 5. Okt. 2018 um 02:14 Uhr schrieb H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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