Squeak on UTF-8 system

Viktor Svub gilrandir at centrum.cz
Thu Mar 16 11:33:04 UTC 2006


Elod Kironsky wrote:
> Viktor Svub wrote:
> 
>> Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>
>>> Petr Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I can't run squeak with correct Czech language keyboard input and
>>>> font output on Fedora Core 4 (UTF-8 enviroment - LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8).
>>>>
>>>> -textenc and -encoding parameters didn't works (squeak 3.8).
>>>>
>>>> Is there any trick or how-to?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, pf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> Try to workaround the problem. There is a Czech keyboard package for 
>>> Squeak at SqueakMap written
>>> by Vladimir Janousek.
>>>
>>> Elod
>>>
>>>
>> this doesn't work on 3.8+ and we really need the utf-8 environment... 
>> (there may be a possibility to rewrite the keyboard-package for higher 
>> versions, but i'm still kind of a squeak-beginner)
>>
>>
>>
> I am sure, it can be rewritten with a little effort. I will ask 
> Vladimir, he is on this mailing list, but I am not sure he is reading. 
> Another sollution is to use the developer version on www.comtalk.net. 
> The direct link is ftp://comtalk.net/Squeak-dev.zip It is natively 
> prepared for czech language I think. As an example, please see the 
> screenshots section at www.squeak.org. The first 2 images are from this 
> developer version as Pavel Krivanek is a great Seaside fan and an active 
> programmer in Seaside.
> 
> Elod
> 
> i'm using a modified SqueakLand dev image with the czech support from 
comtalk.net installed, and it works perfectly; the problem is't the 
localization, but the keyboard input, cause it's written for win32 and 
iso-8859-2 linux, and the utf-8 linux distros handle international 
keyboards differently (i'm a linux-newbie, so i can't tell how)...




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