Casimiro,

> I'm developing a little parser and need to enter characters of Portuguese language like
> á, é, ã, õ, ê... but using the traditional method what happens is that I get a?, e? so on and
> so forth. Platform Linux (utf-8). Help appreciated.

This has always worked just fine on the Mac and in Windows, but the Unix
3.6-3 VM (released on April 2, 2004) changed things so you should set
the LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL environment variables in the shell that invokes
squeak. If you use the -nointl option for the VM then dead keys are
disabled (try "squeak --help").

My own shell doesn't have the LC* variables set (it used to have it back
in 2004, but that probably got lost in some upgrade over the years) but
everything still seems to work for this 4.0.3-2202 VM. I use a ABNT2
keyboard. SQUEAK_ENCODING is set to 'UTF-8'.

Good luck!
-- Jecel