Hi,

Well, we are three already, so a chance that UTF-8 is finally ND 
completely adopted in Squeak is a bit bigger :) And I propose that a 
patch should be done (complete and well tested) regardless of adoption, 
which will come sooner or later.

Such patch will probably break some existing code, but because UTF-8 
solve a problem once for ever, I think the existing code should be 
adapted by its authors to UTF-8.

Janko

Alexander Serkov wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I am quite new to squeak and smalltalk community,
> so my solution is just of "It works for me" sort.
> 
> Attached patch fixes utf-8 keyboard input,
> while clipboard copy paste is still broken.
> 
> On 17/01/2008, danil osipchuk <danil.osipchuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Heh, the silence (I hope I don't look too inpatient - this topic is
>> recurring for years now). Janko, let's face the fact that we are losers with
>> a wrong vm-platform/language combinations :)
>> I suspect that OLPC team somehow addressed the issue (it is linux based,
>> most probably utf-8 locale there). I also see UnixUTF8JPInputInterpreter
>> class in the image - so japanese people also have a solution.
>>
>> I'm sure that we can do it also, at least by adopting the solution of Martin
>> Kuball mentioned before (although I would prefer the approach taken in
>> recent Mac and windows VMs - to add a unicode point code as the sixth field
>> of event buffer).
>>
>> But I have another concern now. What will happen to the patch? Will it find
>> its way to the core VM? Is the unix VM being maintained?
>>
>> cheers,
>>    Danil
>>
>> 2008/1/16, Janko Mivšek < janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
>>> I second Danil question. Is there anyone willing to dig into a that
>>> problem? I am willing to help as much as I can, but I don't know VM nor
>>> Linux internals much. I jumped over C directly to Smalltalk, you know ...
>> :)
>>> Janko
>>>
>>> danil osipchuk wrote:
>>>> Hello, all.
>>>>
>>>> Many modern linux distros now use utf-8 locale as a default setting.
>>>> Also stock unix VM never seemed to handle unicode keyboard input under
>>>> this locale. Are there any plans to do it properly or linux users are
>>>> supposed to fix the VM themselves (by beating heads against of this
>>>> thread for example:
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/Unix-UTF8-input-td11050488.html
>> )? May be anyone
>>>> has got a 'proper' VM already - it is hard to believe that such drawback
>>>> is not fixed long time ago.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>   Danil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> --
>>> Janko Mivšek
>>> AIDA/Web
>>> Smalltalk Web Application Server
>>> http://www.aidaweb.si
>>>
>>>
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