3.10 - Mac OS X Leopard - accent chars and keyboard input

Petr Fischer petr.fischer at praguesoft.cz
Thu Feb 7 17:04:15 UTC 2008


No fun (really, I am not C or VM internals hacker). Next station:  
Seaside under VisualWorks... :(

On 7.2.2008, at 16:23, José Luis Redrejo wrote:

> Petr, don't waste your time: It just does not work.
>
> A colleague of mine and me have been trying to solve this issue, and  
> talked with some of the squeak core developers. There have been very  
> few answers and no one possitive, sometimes they have told me that  
> it worked or it "should" work, or at least that it worked under  
> OLPC. And it's not true.
>
> I have one OLPC on my desk since some days ago and it does not work  
> in spanish, this olpc owner is from Germany and he has also tested  
> it doesn't work on german either.
>
> So, in brief:
> - not using UTF-8 encoding worked in the past, but since last year  
> updates it doesn't work anymore
> - using UTF-8 has never worked and it doesn't work now.
>
> I'm afraid vm developers believe it works because composing keys  
> works, but dead keys do not work and we can not assume that children  
> or teachers will have to type alt+xxx whenever they want to use an  
> accent.
>
> So, until somebody with enough knowledge works on it, it's broken on  
> any unix-like vm.
>
> Sorry for the news, but as I said before, I've spent far too much  
> time since September on this issue and haven't been able to make it  
> work or convinced any skilled developer to work on it. It seems  
> that, if it works under english and japanesse, that's enough. I have  
> no idea how do they pretend to use OLPC with squeak on portuguesse,  
> spanish, french or german spoken countries....
>
>
> Regards
> José L.
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> 2008/2/7, Petr Fischer <petr.fischer at praguesoft.cz>: tried with  
> Squeak-3.9-8 (mac unix vm) and internal Bitstream Vera Sans
> and Verdana from Windows (is it unicode?)
>
> pf
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> On 7.2.2008, at 15:52, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
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> > Petr Fischer a écrit :
> >> I mean keyb. input inside image (while developing - entering texts,
> >> labels...). pf
> >>
> > First of all, you need a Unicode font in order to read them.
> >
> > --
> > Serge Stinckwich
> > http://doesnotunderstand.free.fr/
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