Squeak on UTF-8 system

Viktor Svub gilrandir at centrum.cz
Thu Mar 16 19:05:10 UTC 2006


Martin Kuball napsal(a):
> Am Thursday, 16. March 2006 12:33 schrieb Viktor Svub:
>> Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>> Viktor Svub wrote:
>>>> Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>>>> Petr Fischer wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, I can't run squeak with correct Czech language keyboard
>>>>>> input and font output on Fedora Core 4 (UTF-8 enviroment -
>>>>>> LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -textenc and -encoding parameters didn't works (squeak 3.8).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any trick or how-to?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, pf
>>>>> Try to workaround the problem. There is a Czech keyboard
>>>>> package for Squeak at SqueakMap written
>>>>> by Vladimir Janousek.
>>>>>
>>>>> Elod
>>>> this doesn't work on 3.8+ and we really need the utf-8
>>>> environment... (there may be a possibility to rewrite the
>>>> keyboard-package for higher versions, but i'm still kind of a
>>>> squeak-beginner)
>>> I am sure, it can be rewritten with a little effort. I will ask
>>> Vladimir, he is on this mailing list, but I am not sure he is
>>> reading. Another sollution is to use the developer version on
>>> www.comtalk.net. The direct link is
>>> ftp://comtalk.net/Squeak-dev.zip It is natively prepared for
>>> czech language I think. As an example, please see the screenshots
>>> section at www.squeak.org. The first 2 images are from this
>>> developer version as Pavel Krivanek is a great Seaside fan and an
>>> active programmer in Seaside.
>>>
>>> Elod
>>>
>>> i'm using a modified SqueakLand dev image with the czech support
>>> from
>> comtalk.net installed, and it works perfectly; the problem is't the
>> localization, but the keyboard input, cause it's written for win32
>> and iso-8859-2 linux, and the utf-8 linux distros handle
>> international keyboards differently (i'm a linux-newbie, so i can't
>> tell how)...
> 
> About 1 and a half year ago I submitted a patch for the unix keyboard 
> input handler of the VM to make it utf8 ready. Unfortunately it never 
> got  included. Maybe it's time to try again. 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
maybe you should just post the fix here, so anyone can build an own
utf-8 VM, without waiting for [a new release / a few years] (cross out
which does not apply)  ;)




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