Well, there are two parts to this - input and output.

First, make sure output works, that is, you can actually display  
cyrillic glyphs. Look up the unicode code points, hand-assemble a  
string, and display it using your font.

Once that works, you need to make the VM send cyrillic characters to  
the image. I am not sure how well supported that is under Linux, yet.  
I think it is still 8 bits, although you can choose the encoding.  
This VM encoding must match the one selected in the image. This is  
actually your best bet, other language environments do the same.

IIRC, the Mac OS X VM is the only one to date that actually can  
deliver Unicode to the image, although it still takes a bit of  
fiddling in the image to get it right.

- Bert -

On Nov 16, 2006, at 10:00 , malex wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
>   Cannot make Squeak accept Cyrillic symbols under Linux (Ubuntu,
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8). Please help!!! :)
> If it does not work we won't be able to continue using Squeak :(
>
>   Tried the following:
> 1. Installed ttfFontReaderRefactored from SqueakMap.
> 2. Installed RussianSupport from SqueakSource via Monticello.
> 3. Run the following code in the Workspace:
>
> "sometimes squeak hangs when new fonts are being enabled - hope  
> this make
> doIt more safe."
> World collapseAll.
>
> "This will ask for font directory - point to location where your  
> ttf files
> reside. It also will suggest you to enable freshly installed fonts in
> browsers, etc."
>
> TTFontReader suggestBatchInstallToUser.
>
> "This switches locale to Russian - wait a couple of seconds".
> Locale switchToID: (LocaleID isoLanguage: 'ru').
>
> 4. Changed default font to Arial.
>
> 5. Trying to type something in Russian in newly opened Workspace  
> window -
> nothing happens, no symbol gets entered.
>
>   Thank you very much in advance.
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