Hi, Michael--

Thanks for your response. Sorry for not being more specific.

I'm experiencing the same problem you describe: the characters display fine, but inputing them via dead keys fails in the same way you describe. I can copy and paste international text on any window, and can use the right-alt key, but any dead key combination will just display two separate characters.

As for the built-in renderers, I tried using the vanilla image without any font enhancements, tried with with the Damien's squeak-dev image without any font enhancements and with both adding FreeType Plus. Not a single combination worked.

The man page for squeak implies dead keys should work fine, and the changelogs also say that.

Anyway, I develop mostly using English, but since my application needs to support a couple of other languages, it would be nice to be able to input international characters directly in the image without having to resort to copy and past.

Thanks again for the response. Any additional pointers are appreciated.

Fahr

On 7/22/07, Michael van der Gulik mikevdg@gulik.co.nz wrote:

I'm using Ubuntu 7.04, and I tried the international characters using 3.9-7067. I set my keyboard to be "US English International (with dead keys)" (änd ít séëms tø wórk). I learned something new today - I've never played with international characters in Linux before.

It worked mostly okay. The dead keys didn't work, but I could use the right-alt key to type in some pretty cool characters. The characters displayed fine.

Try using a different font (appearance -> system fonts). I'm no expert on this, but from what I know, Squeak can either use itś built-in font renderers or use the freetype library, and not all fonts have all characters in them.

Otherwise could you be more specific about what is happening? Are you having trouble typing in the characters, or are they being displayed incorrectly? Can you cut and paste international characters into Squeak okay?

Michael.

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Wow! That did it. Thank you so much, Hilaire.

Cheers,

Fahr

On 8/5/07, Hilaire Fernandes hilaire@ofset.org wrote:

It seems dead key is not working with utf-8 encoding from the linux host. What we have found is to force to iso8859-1 before starting the VM

See some details at (use google to translate if needed): http://community.ofset.org/wiki/Squeak_sur_GNU-Linux#Caract.C3.A8res_accentu...

Hilaire

Fahr Jahrel a écrit :

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Hello, all--

I've been trying unsuccessfully for some hours to make my Squeak image accept diacritical characters under Ubuntu 7.04. I've tried all possible combinations of the -textenc, -encoding, and LC_CTYPE options I could but none worked. The diacritical characters either don't display or display incorrectly.

Ironically, if I run Squeak via Wine, the diacritical characters display correctly.

Any help pointing me to the right direction would be appreciated.

My system configuration today is:

Distro: Ubuntu 7.04

Squeak:

3.9-8 #5 Tue Oct 10 11:56:09 PDT 2006 gcc 4.0.3 Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021] Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/*.so

Image:

Tried with the vanilla 7067 image, the lasted squeak-dev image, and even Ramon Leon's image. :-)

Any help is appreaciated.

Thanks,

Fahr

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