[etoys-notify] [JIRA] Created: (SQ-850) Indic language inputs are not accepted

[K. K. Subramaniam (JIRA)]

Indic language inputs are not accepted
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                 Key: SQ-850
                 URL: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-850
             Project: squeakland
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: etoys-linux
            Reporter: K. K. Subramaniam
            Assignee: K. K. Subramaniam
            Priority: Critical
             Fix For: etoys 4.1.1
         Attachments: m17nenv-kks.3.cs

Indic locales like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil etc. use input method engines on Linux that transcode keyboard codes into UTF-8 automatically. Etoys 4.1 treats these as MacRoman encodings, preventing edits for TextMorphs. Pasting text from clipboard is too complicated and tedious for kids.

I have attached a changeset that adds multilingual Indic text input support for Indic language locales. It requires etoys.sh to be patched with '-compositioninput' for locales that use "utf-8" codeset.

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