International text input on X11

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>> On 13-07-2016, at 8:30 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> A script to do the install is simple enough and I suspect someone can offer up the incantation to automate adding the relevant lines to .bashrc or create it if needed.
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>>> yes, and there are bunch of those floating on websites for Japanese.  Many educators make their own disk image, etc. so while it'd be good to provide such to the world, it may not be the job for the Squeak community. Some people have different font preferences even, and they make pages or images that has modified .po file (that contains font spec).  So I think the Squeak community's job is to provide a good foundation for internationalized Scratch.
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> OK, fair point. Perhaps you could provide a pointer to a good place for people to look? We (as in the Pi foundation) ought to provide at least that much I think, so that anyone new to the scene has a decent starting place.
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>> I dropped the ball about the shell script, but where does it stand?
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> The scratch script handles choosing the image, handling some options (like —sudo for users of xrdp) and finding out if the camera, senseHAT or pigpio need setting up before calling the squeak script. That in turn finds the latest VM (now that we will be able to rely on a single vm version designator), sorts out the clib gunk, checks XMODIFIERS etc and finally starts up the vm with all the set parameters.
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>> On 01-08-2016, at 1:09 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> With those scripts (and with my modification send in a separate email)
>> and the VM I compiled from the github source, it handles
>> -compositioninput properly and I can get the Japanese text into
>> Scratch where the proper environment variables are set.  (The
>> composition window's position is not there yet as the image I have is
>> "02052015".)  It probably is nice if I test everything as people would
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> The release candidate for the august Raspbian is at https://github.com/raspberrypi/scratch/commit/3b6cdcb03104964ac4de3472277ce828645a8de8
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> It’s a simple zipped-tar of the files for the entire release, so untar it in / as in
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> sudo tar xczf {path-to-.tgz}