An attempt to support Czech language

Vladimir Janousek janousek at fit.vutbr.cz
Wed Jan 19 21:01:37 UTC 2005


Pavel Krivanek wrote:

>>  Pavel,
>>
>>  By the way, you wrote this:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Linux uses standard Latin2 encoding but here's a problem with keyboard
>>>input. Squeak VM doesn't accept special Czech characters.
>>>      
>>>
>>and also this:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>  Ah, I know the conversion table, but do you (people in Czech) expect
>>>>to be able to use "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" for example, or LATIN
>>>>SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE?  Namely, chars in 0x80-0x9F range?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Yes, at least 8A, 8C, 8D, 8E are very important for us.
>>>      
>>>
>>  Does that mean that a typical Linux user has to live without these
>>"important" chars?
>>
>>-- Yoshiki
>>    
>>
>
>Yes (and the VM for PocketPC has the same problem). The only solution was to
>use English keyboard and to recode some keys to correspond with the Czech
>native keyboard (without support of the hosting OS) or to import texts from
>the external file. And we needed fonts too.
>  
>

This is exactly the way how the SM package "Czech Keyboard" solves the 
problem. I'm looking forward
it will be obsoleted soon.

Vladimir Janousek






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