Squeak on UTF-8 system

Viktor Svub gilrandir at centrum.cz
Fri Mar 17 10:27:50 UTC 2006


Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   I don't have such environments so that I cannot test things by
> myself, but the rule of thumb is to disable the conversion built in
> the VM.  I believe that the VM (do you mean that the VM is 3.8a1 or
> such?) has "noconv" or such for the -textenc and -encoding.
> 
>   The encoding conversion in the VM is basically written before the
> m17n stuff, and doesn't work well if combined with it.
> 
>   Hope this helps in some way...
> 
> -- Yoshiki
> 
> At Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:34:29 +0100,
> Viktor Svub 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>This issue is a real problem... the national input seems not work on 
>>*any* full UTF-8 linux distribution (Ubuntu), even if i try all locale 
>>environment and squeak-vm parameters combinations. And AFAIK nobody was 
>>able to solve this so far...
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
thank you very much ^_^ ... "squeak -encoding noconv <image>" is the way 
it goes - the national input is OK now (the VM thorows a few 
"iconv_open: Invalid argument" messages on startup, but this can be 
ignored, i think)




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