[etoys-dev] [etoys-notify] [JIRA] Updated: (SQ-554) Etoys does not work with Chinese input

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 01.10.2010, at 09:04, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 2:10:27 pm Bert Freudenberg (JIRA) wrote:
>>> The squeak VM needs to be started with the -compositioninput option (this
>>> can be done via the etoys script in /usr/bin). However, even after that,
>>> Chinese characters appear correctly only after the locale (LANG, LC_ALL
>>> env variables) are set to ja_JP.UTF-8
> I noticed something strange in HandMorph>>generateKeyboardEvent. The 
> keyboardInterpreter for Japanese locale decodes a stream of UTF-8 bytes into a 
> Character 'char' but keyValue passed to event generator is 'char asciiValue'. 
> This doesn't seem to be right. But I try to pass char directly, I get a 
> failure in keyString which tries to print keyValue using String.
> 
> Is it necessary that keyValue be ASCII all the time?

asciiValue is misnamed, it is actually the raw value of the character (including the language tag), not limited to ASCII.

- Bert -