Good news, 

	Czech localization works well on Linux too. Here's a patch. The only
problem is with the clipboard inputs from the other programs but it's the
issue of the Squeak VM. Clipboard operations from Squeak to Squeak are OK.

	Thank you very much, Yoshiki

Pavel


-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Vladimir
Janousek
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:02 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: An attempt to support Czech language

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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