[Vm-dev] Unix UTF8 input

[Chris Petsos]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 22:18 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>  
> On Jun 10, 2007, at 22:00 , Martin Kuball wrote:
> 
> >
> > Am Sunday 10 June 2007 schrieb Chris Petsos:
> >> I've read many reports on how one can add an utf8 input mechanism  
> >> in the
> >> unix vm of Squeak... tried to do the trick with the -eventenc  
> >> parameter
> >> but that didn't work in the latest release.
> 
> Never saw that parameter. The unix VM has -encoding (the encoding  
> used for communication with the image), -pathenc (encoding of  
> filenames on disk) and -textenc (encoding of 8-bit X clipboard data).
> 

it's a workaround i found while searching...it's an addition to the VM
by John McIntosh.
You can find the needed changes here...

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2006-March/000491.html

Didn't work though...
> > Well, the last time I looked at the code the unix vm didn't support
> > multibyte key events. So you won't have any luck with setting the
> > eventenc. Some time ago I submitted a patch to make this work. It
> > obviously never made it into the vm. And I can't blame anyone  
> > because the
> > code was bad. I have improved it a bit since than. So if there is  
> > interest
> > and if somebody tells me where to send it I will submit the patch  
> > again.
> 
Yes...please Martin...post it to the mail list...

> Does that use the same field as on Mac an Win VMs? If so, sure, send  
> it here! UTF-8 isn't really sensible for keyboard events, we use  
> UTF-32 instead.

Christos.