[Vm-dev] Unix UTF8 input

[Martin Kuball]

Am Monday 25 June 2007 schrieb Chris Petsos:
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 19:53 +0200, Martin Kuball wrote:
> > Yes, that is part of it. Could you send me the output of the locale
> > command?
>
> I undid some things so...here you go...
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> > What exactly happens if you start the VM with -eventenc. Is there any
> > error message or does it simply quit?
>
> I don't get any error messages, but the VM resopnds as if the -eventenc
> parameter does not exist. Meaning that running...
>
> /home/Bob/Desktop/Squeak-3.9-9/build/squeak -eventenc UTF-8
> ~/.npsqueak/SqueakPlugin.image
>
> is identical to running...
>
> /home/Bob/Desktop/Squeak-3.9-9/build/squeak -edsfrsdf UTF-8
> ~/.npsqueak/SqueakPlugin.image
>
> > Now that I'm thinking about this stuff again I believe that I should
> > not have added the eventenc parameter at all. The encoding of the
> > keyevents delivered by the X server is determined by the locale
> > setting. We too should use the locale setting to figure out how to map
> > from the encoding of the X server to the squeak internal encoding. No
> > user intervention is required here. It could only do harm.
>
> I would agree... Another idea floating in the air is to use the xutf8*
> set of functions...from what i know this set is going to be integrated
> into the OLPC distribution too, so it may become handy...but...one step
> at a time.

Do you know where I can get more information about these xutf8* functions?

> > > I 've put some keyboard event buffer printing in my input
> > > interpreter so that i can see if keyboard events are generated and
> > > with what values... When i change the keyboard to my locale, no
> > > printing to the Transcript...no events generated at all...
> > > Why is that?
> >
> > So you were able to start the VM but you could not enter any
> > characters?
>
> Yes, i could start the VM without the -eventenc parameter but i could
> not enter any non-english chars...

That means the patch did actually not change anything for you, right?
Are you really sure you'r using the right vm? The one you compiled? Sorry I 
have to ask but this is strange.

Martin