Torge Husfeldt wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
//snipped//
> 
> No matter, I implemented a very simple but effective "DeadCharacter"
> suport for squeak based on 2.8alpha-1789 - I hope it wont break to many
> things when filed in. Feel free to modify the code or the bindings as
> you pleases.

Thanks Torge:

I'm not absolutely sure what I'm supposed to type: the file in went
without a hitch -- at least, it doesn't seem to have broken anything
(but maybe something broke it? ;-) ). -- An admission, I never get on
well with keyboard modifiers: the only ones I seem to be able to use are
in gvim and a rather nice word processor on the Atari. (Neither of which
are a great deal of use here!) Treat me as very stupid in this respect! 

I open up a Workspace, and run a "print it" on Characters deadCharacters
and get:

 a Dictionary($^->a Dictionary($a->'?' $e->'?' $i->'?' $o->'?' $u->'?' )
$`->a Dictionary($A->'À' $a->'^' $e->'?' $i->'?' $o->'~' $u->'?' ) $~->a
Dictionary($A->'Ã' $N->'?' $O->'Õ' $a->'<' $n->'-' $o->'>' ) $°->a
Dictionary($A->'?' $a->'?' ) $´->a Dictionary($C->',' $E->'f' $a->'?'
$c->'?' $e->'?' $i->'?' $o->'-' $u->'?' ) $¨->a Dictionary($A->'?'
$O->'?' $U->'?' $a->'S' $e->'?' $i->'*' $o->'s' $u->'Y' $y->'ÿ' ) )

I do a series of print its: 

$ isDeadCharacter false
 Nothing more expected ->~ isDeadCharacter
# isDeadCharacter #isDeadCharacter
 Nothing more expected ->@ isDeadCharacter
 Unmatched string quote ->' isDeadCharacter
| isDeadCharacter Vertical bar expected ->
 Nothing more expected ->? isDeadCharacter
$^ isDeadCharacter true
^ isDeadCharacter nil

(this in the belief that US keyboards have the $ in a different place to
UK ones -- but for the life of me, I can't remember where!)

Hmmm:

Nothing more expected ->£ isDeadCharacter

(Ah well, worth a try!)

I simply don't get it!

(This has always seemed to me to be one of the biggest holes in Linux:
we have menus in languages from Hungarian through to simplified Chinese,
but no easy way of getting even the simplest foreign character! Aaargh!)

Cheers

John




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