Am 24.10.2008 um 14:27 schrieb Casimiro de Almeida Barreto:

> Mariano Martinez Peck escreveu:
>>
>> Casimiro: Many thanks for the help. Ï did all you said I now I get  
>> "a?" "e?" "u?" and so on instead of "´a" "´e"....however, I didn't  
>> get "á", "é" and "ú". Any ideas? Ahh which would be the correct  
>> value for LC_CTYPE for english?  "pt_EN" ???
>>
>> Katerina: I test the etoys image you said with the normal vm (not  
>> etoys vm) and there they work perfect the keys! What could be the  
>> difference? The problem is I would like to use Demian image, not  
>> etoys. So, the only thing I could do is the link you told me about  
>> the
>> russian support ?
>>
>> many thanks for the help,
>>
>> Mariano
>>
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>>
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>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Katerina Barone-Adesi <katerinab at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>> > Hi everybody! I am using Ubuntu 8.04, latin american keyboard,  
>> squeak 3.9
>> > vm, squeak 3.10.2 of Damien Cassou. The problem is that I cannot  
>> type
>> > symbols like: "á" , "ó", "ú" and so on....If I press the keys for  
>> those
>> > symbols I get "´a" "´o" and "´u" respectively. So, I guess it can  
>> be a
>> > problem with UTF8.
>> >
>> > Does some know how can I fix this? is there somewhere in the  
>> squeak image I
>> > have to set the encoder ?
>>
>> Given that you get ´a, etc, I assume you're using deadkeys.  The only
>> way I know of to get deadkeys to work under Squeak is to use the OLPC
>> image; unfortunately, they don't appear to work in any of the
>> squeak.org images (3.9 or 3.10), or Damien Cassou's.  You can get it
>> from http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip .  I forget  
>> if
>> you need to use the OLPC vm too or not;
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys#Method_3_-_Install_RPMs_or_.deb.27s_.28Linux_Only.29
>> has instructions if just using the image with your current VM isn't
>> enough.
>>
>> If you're not using deadkeys, the above should still work, but you
>> also have an alternative:  following the instructions at
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5773 .  The page focuses on Russian
>> support, but the image that results from following it also works for
>> Spanish.  If you really want to use something based on Damien  
>> Cassou's
>> image and don't need deadkeys, try this (and tell me if it works for
>> you, and if not, what's wrong); otherwise, the OLPC instructions  
>> above
>> should be easier.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>> Regards;
>> Katerina Barone-Adesi
>>
>>
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> Ops...
>
> I guess that unsing LC_CTYPE="en" will just kill your dead-letters.  
> I'm using a US keyboard (no ç or anything like that in the keyboard)  
> and I use the LC_CTYPE="pt_BR" for the sake of composing  ' +  c = ç  
> and ' + a = á. So I think you should try LC_CTYPE="es". I agree  
> about the strageness of using a pt_BR (should be a pt_EN). BTW, in  
> Linux my keyboard is configured as : "USA Alternative international  
> (former us_intl) (gnome preferences menu). Besides, the system  
> language is set to Portuguese (Brasil) (Administration menu,  
> Language settings. Must have root access).
>
> As you are having trouble, perhaps your system idiom is not set to  
> Spanish... or the system encoding is not set to UTF-8 (that should  
> be the default). You can try to change SQUEAK_ENCODING and TEXTENC  
> to "latin9" or "latin1" or ISO8859-1... Anyways, I think that  
> character selection is something that must be perfected in squeak :(
>
> BTW, I'm using Fedora rel 9. But my configuration should be the same  
> to work in Ubuntu.
>
> Abraços,
>
> Casimiro


I'm not entirely sure what LC_CTYPE does. But on the OLPC no LC_*  
variable was set, only LANG (e.g,, pt_BR.utf8 or en_EN.utf8). To have  
composite input working correctly we now set LC_ALL to $LANG, too.

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