[etoys-dev] composition input window

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.09.2010, at 04:27, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Monday 27 Sep 2010 12:25:00 am Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 26.09.2010, at 20:49, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>>> I am using UIM input method engine on my Linux box. I added
>>> -compositioninput  just after -xshm in etoys.sh launch script. Are there
>>> any other magic incantations to be set in the code?
>> 
>> This is from http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys.in
>> 
>> # make Compose input methods work
>> [ -z "$LC_ALL" ] && export LC_ALL="$LANG"
> It doesn't work with this setting either :-(. This is not related to mantis 
> 7472.
> 
> Could it be that somewhere along the input path, the sequence is treated like 
> String instead of Unicode and is not passed to Pango for rendering?

Check the actual content of the string you typed:

	'αβγ' squeakToUtf8 asByteArray "#[206 177 206 178 206 179]"

Also, check the current interpreter used

	ActiveHand keyboardInterpreter 

I think it should be UTF32InputInterpreter on Linux (but see implementors of #inputInterpreterClass).

- Bert -