Accented characters

>>> After some messing around I think the problem is that my image does not
>>> know how to handle both the "de_DE" and the "de_DE.utf8" locales at all.
>>> Hence it falls back to locale C, which uses ascii and iso character
>>> encoding by default, which in turn coincides with what it gets from the
>>> local X server when running with the "de_DE" locale. Is this guess
>>> correct?
>>>
>>> The available locales are a peculiar selection, too. What's behind that?
>>>
>>>   an IdentitySet (#'nl_D.HPRoman8' #'nl_D.ISO8859-1' #'pt_BR.CP1252'
>>>   #'en_GB.ISO8859-15' #C #'ru_RU.KOI8-R' #'en_US.HPRoman8'
>>>   #'en_US.ISO8859-1' #'ua_UA.KOI8-U')

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:56:58 -0300
> Andres Fortier <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>          I need to show a dialog to the user and the text has to be in
>> spanish, using accented characters. I was surprised to find out that
>> pressing the accent character followed by the character to be accented
>> just yielded the character without an accent (i.e. ' + a = a instead of
>> á). At first I thought it might be an encoding problem,
>
> sounds familiar ... if you can access the vw-dev mailing list, I'd
> suggest taking a look at my problem from a few weeks ago, titled
>
> "[7.5.1 jun07.3] German umlaut characters on linux?"
>
> Quoting myself from there:
>
>>>> I get umlauts with
>>>> $ LC_CTYPE=de_DE ~/vw7.5/bin/linuxx86_64/visual work_waldo4_64.im
>>>>
>>>> I do not get umlauts with
>>>> $ LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 ~/vw7.5/bin/linuxx86_64/visual work_waldo4_64.im
>
> I'm not sure about what I can and can't post from what is said there,
> but there's another snippet by me:
>
>>>> After some messing around I think the problem is that my image does not
>>>> know how to handle both the "de_DE" and the "de_DE.utf8" locales at all.
>>>> Hence it falls back to locale C, which uses ascii and iso character
>>>> encoding by default, which in turn coincides with what it gets from the
>>>> local X server when running with the "de_DE" locale. Is this guess
>>>> correct?
>>>>
>>>> The available locales are a peculiar selection, too. What's behind that?
>>>>
>>>>   an IdentitySet (#'nl_D.HPRoman8' #'nl_D.ISO8859-1' #'pt_BR.CP1252'
>>>>   #'en_GB.ISO8859-15' #C #'ru_RU.KOI8-R' #'en_US.HPRoman8'
>>>>   #'en_US.ISO8859-1' #'ua_UA.KOI8-U')
>
> So if you have a "strange" locale, I'd suggest
>   $ LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1" visual visual.im
> and trying to type your accented characters in this setting.
>
> s.
>
>

> Hi Stefan,
>           well, I get most of the things you are talking about (I can
> install ES locale but it is not listed as available for my platform). I
> try what you suggested and even though now I can see the accent typed, I
> can't get to accent the character. In other words:
>
> ' + a
>
> Should be: á
> Default Image: a
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1" Image: ´a
>
> So, the good news is that it recognizes de accent (´) but it treats it
> as a separate character.
>
> any other suggestions are most welcome :)
>

> I'm not sure if this is quite good enough for you, but there is a
> 'character composition' capability built directly into the
> ParagraphEditor. I believe you can get the character you want by typing
>
> Ctrl-k + ' + a
>
> Ctrl-k invokes the composition function. I don't think this is connected
> to any OS level facilities for character input, so you only get what's
> wired into PE and may not cover all your needs. On the other hand it's
> all there for you to tweak.
>
> Finally, to see the character, you'll also need to make sure that the
> font that your text edit widget is using has  your characters. In
> general I try to switch my image to available Unicode font. This
> incantation seems to do the trick for me on Fedora Core 6:
>
> CharacterEncoder
>     installEncoder: UnicodeCharacterEncoder new
>     named: #'iso10646-1'
>     platform: #unix.
> Locale current preferredEncodings: #('iso10646-1').
> Locale internalSet: Locale current name
>
> HTH,
>
> Martin
>
> Andres Fortier wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>           well, I get most of the things you are talking about (I can
>> install ES locale but it is not listed as available for my platform).
>> I try what you suggested and even though now I can see the accent
>> typed, I can't get to accent the character. In other words:
>>
>> ' + a
>>
>> Should be: á
>> Default Image: a
>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1" Image: ´a
>>
>> So, the good news is that it recognizes de accent (´) but it treats it
>> as a separate character.
>>
>> any other suggestions are most welcome :)
>>
>
>

>
> ...... Original Message .......
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:11:05 -0300 Cesar Rabak <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>> Carl Gundel escreveu:
>>> What is the simplest way to ensure that button label colors will always
>>> be black (or some other color) no matter what the user's color choices
> are?
>> By user's choices you mean the "color scheme" of the OS?
>
> Yes, but if VW were following the color scheme of the OS, I wouldn't need
> to ask for help.