Thank you for continuing to pursue this and especially for sending out
these periodic progress reports.  I don't have any particular use for
the result at this time, but it is interesting nonetheless and is an
issue of importance to many people.

Ken

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 16:35 +0200, Katerina Barone-Adesi wrote:
> I've tried using the OLPC VM [1] and
> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-dev.zip (with all 239 updates).  The
> results are improved, but still mixed:
> 
> What works:
> - dead keys (as long as I run squeak -vm-display-X11 -compositioninput
> etoys-dev.image).
> 
> What half-works:
> - Japanese input.  I can type with Anthy+Skim and see hiragana
> correctly, but as soon as I press space or enter, everything but the
> first character turns into gibberish (not Kanji - accented Latin
> characters and unicode missing-character boxes).  I don't think it's a
> font problem, as it looks ok while I'm inputting it, and when I switch
> to Japanese, all of the menus show up properly in Japanese.
> 
> What doesn't work:
> - Russian input.  It mainly shows unicode boxes as well, even if I
> change the font to Deja Vu (using World -> Open -> File List, loading
> the TTF, then World -> Appearance -> System fonts -> Code font, then
> opening a new workspace).
> 
> Running with or without -encoding UTF-8 -textenc UTF-8 seems to make
> no difference.
> 
> Also, oddly, there are many less language options: only German,
> English, Spanish, French, Japanese and Portuguese.  The rest have
> disappeared.
> 
> I've prepared a screenshot.  The result of typing using a Russian
> keymap is in the left workspace; the right one shows the result of
> typing in Japanese with anthy+skim.  The top two lines on the right
> are what happened after pressing enter; the properly-displaying
> hiragana are what I see while I'm still typing.
> 
> Do you have any advice for how I can troubleshoot this and/or what I'm
> doing wrong?
> 
> [1]: http://etoys.laptop.org/rpms/squeak-vm-3.10-3olpc10.i386.rpm and
> squeak -version:
> 3.10-3 #1 Fri Aug 29 19:30:22 CEST 2008 gcc 4.1.2
> Squeak3.10beta of 22 July 2007 [latest update: #7159]
> Linux fedora7 2.6.23.17-88.fc7 #1 SMP Thu May 15 00:35:10 EDT 2008
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.10-3/*.so
> 
> Regards;
> Katerina Barone-Adesi
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