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CdAB63

How to input diacritics (like á, é, ó, ã...)

Hello,

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.

Best regards,

CdAB

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Levente Uzonyi-2

Re: How to input diacritics (like á, é, ó, ã...)

You see question marks because the font you're using doesn't have the
glyphs to display the accented characters.
I don't know if there's an easy way to load a font with the missing
characters into a 4.6 image, because FreeType's FontChooser is broken,
probably due to the recent Morphic changes. You can use the following
script to load FreeType, if you want to give it a try:

Installer ss3
project: 'FreeTypePlus';
install: 'FreeTypeConstants';
install: 'FreeType';
install: 'FreeTypeSubPixelAntiAliasing';
install: 'FreeTypeTests'

Levente

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Casimiro - GMAIL wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> Best regards,
>
> CdAB
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Ben Coman

Re: How to input diacritics (like á, é, ó, ã...)

You can use http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm
to check which fonts support the characters you need (although you
probably also determine this from whichever word processor you're
using)
cheers -ben

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Levente Uzonyi <[hidden email]> wrote:

> You see question marks because the font you're using doesn't have the glyphs
> to display the accented characters.
> I don't know if there's an easy way to load a font with the missing
> characters into a 4.6 image, because FreeType's FontChooser is broken,
> probably due to the recent Morphic changes. You can use the following script
> to load FreeType, if you want to give it a try:
>
> Installer ss3
> project: 'FreeTypePlus';
> install: 'FreeTypeConstants';
> install: 'FreeType';
> install: 'FreeTypeSubPixelAntiAliasing';
> install: 'FreeTypeTests'
>
> Levente
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Casimiro - GMAIL wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> CdAB
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>> the recipients specified in the headers. If you received this message by
>> error, notify the sender immediately. The unauthorized use, disclosure,
>> copy or alteration of this message are strictly forbidden and subjected to
>> civil and criminal sanctions.
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Jecel Assumpcao Jr

Re: How to input diacritics (like á, é, ó, ã...)

In reply to this post by CdAB63

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

CdAB63

Re: How to input diacritics (like á, é, ó, ã...)

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Em 11-08-2015 22:25, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. escreveu:

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").

I'm using cog_spur. With the traditional VM diacritics worked OK, but in cog diacritics have always been a problem that I masked by using English.


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