Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression

Hi, seems like Pharo 5 (Win 7 64bit) has a regression / new bug with same symptoms as described in:
http://lists.pharo.org/pipermail/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org/2010-May/027180.html

Nearly all accented characters work ok.

Seems like any character can be pasted in and displays correctly, but any attempt to directly enter "č" or "ě" ("caron" + c / e) fails.

[I have a hunch there was some easy fix; either my memory plays tricks on me, or google can't find it]

Thanks for any tip,

  M.R.

Hi I have a solution for the problem you mentioned. I know what needs to
be done to be able to type those pesky e with caron, c with caron and
uppercase C with caron characters on Pharo 3, 4 and 5 on Windows. But
I want you to do something for me in return. I want you to go to
stackoverflow.com, and ask a question about this problem there. Post
the link to your question here. I will answer it. If my solution works
for you, you tag it as a solution and I get stackoverflow.com karma. Deal?

Milan




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I have debugged the issue and figured out how to fix it. I have seen
it as an opportunity to learn Pharo debugging and I did learn a few
tricks on the way. It took me 2 full days of debugging.

It is a simple fix that works for all the Pharo versions on Windows
that have this problem. Including Pharo 6 without Nicolai's fix applied.
And it does not break any shortcuts as far as I can tell.

I was so proud of myself. I thought I deserved some recognition. And I
still do. It is not that someone else could not do it. I am sure that
many people would be able to do that as well. But I did take the time
to do it. And it worked. I kind of would have liked to be able to point
to it and say "I fixed that".

I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was
wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive
incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but
possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think
I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. I don't think a
site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves to benefit
from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to
overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time.

I understand now that mailing lists have several good qualities that
stackoverflow.com does not have: posts can not disappear. People can not
anonymously make you look bad even if they are incompetent in the subject
matter.

Don't get me wrong. I'm ok with being told that I'm ugly or stupid
if I understand what it is that is disliked. But I do not like places
where anonymous bullying is actively encouraged. Hey I even got a 'Peer
Pressure' badge for deleting my down voted post.

So much for context.


I understand that Nicolai is working on a fix of his own. The preliminary
version for future Pharo 6.0 shows promise. With it, it is possible to
type all the russian characters. Even with the fix it is not possible
to type the Latin 'č' but I guess that can be fixed too.

Back to business:

Is there anyone out there using Pharo 3, 4, 5 or 6 on Windows that would
benefit now from being able to type the characters č, Č, ě or Russian Ё,
Л, М, Н, О, П in Workspace/Playground and System Browser?

I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get
some visibility in the process. If there is any interest.


Milan

I have debugged the issue and figured out how to fix it. I have seen
it as an opportunity to learn Pharo debugging and I did learn a few
tricks on the way. It took me 2 full days of debugging.

It is a simple fix that works for all the Pharo versions on Windows
that have this problem. Including Pharo 6 without Nicolai's fix applied.
And it does not break any shortcuts as far as I can tell.

I was so proud of myself. I thought I deserved some recognition. And I
still do. It is not that someone else could not do it. I am sure that
many people would be able to do that as well. But I did take the time
to do it. And it worked. I kind of would have liked to be able to point
to it and say "I fixed that".

I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was
wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive
incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but
possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think
I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. I don't think a
site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves to benefit
from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to
overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time.

I understand now that mailing lists have several good qualities that
stackoverflow.com does not have: posts can not disappear. People can not
anonymously make you look bad even if they are incompetent in the subject
matter.

Don't get me wrong. I'm ok with being told that I'm ugly or stupid
if I understand what it is that is disliked. But I do not like places
where anonymous bullying is actively encouraged. Hey I even got a 'Peer
Pressure' badge for deleting my down voted post.

So much for context.


I understand that Nicolai is working on a fix of his own. The preliminary
version for future Pharo 6.0 shows promise. With it, it is possible to
type all the russian characters. Even with the fix it is not possible
to type the Latin 'č' but I guess that can be fixed too.

Back to business:

Is there anyone out there using Pharo 3, 4, 5 or 6 on Windows that would
benefit now from being able to type the characters č, Č, ě or Russian Ё,
Л, М, Н, О, П in Workspace/Playground and System Browser?

I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get
some visibility in the process. If there is any interest.


Milan





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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was
>> wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive
>> incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but
>> possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think
>> I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. I don't think a
>> site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves to benefit
>> from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to
>> overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time.

In spite of Peter's feedback on your specific post, in general I
agree. Several people in our community have found the same.  I've only
answered a few, not asked Pharo questions on SO, and some shot down by
people for "reasons" that didn't seem true, and really discouraged me
from participating.  Mainstream languages seem to have a lower
standard.  If they could let it be moderated by a
knowledgeable-topic-lieutenant aligned with their tough guidelines it
would be more palatable - but as it stands I find the mail list, issue
tracker and slack provide everything I need.

>>
>> I was so proud of myself. I thought I deserved some recognition.
>> And I still do.

Really glad to hear of your achievement.  Thanks for sharing.  Its a
significant step to choose to attack the problem yourself rather than
just report it (which also is good).  I remember a similar sense of
accomplishment and surprise with the degree I could dig deep into
Pharo to help resolve issues, and a little trepidation waiting for the
fix to be reviewed and integrated. I've gained a lot of knowledge from
such feedback (and also btw, reviewing other peoples fixes,
identifying the changes and tracing through that code before and after
loading the slice.)


>> I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get
>> some visibility in the process. If there is any interest.
>
>
> Explicitly asking for a recognition is going on a very thin ice.

This is a bit tough against a newcomer finding their way into the
community, feeling the exuberance of achievement (although a little
tainted by the karma trade offer rather than a pure gift.)  Although
"repeated" requests for recognition won't fit in, lets recognize the
effort to break the barriers to actively participate in improving
Pharo.  First posts and first contributions are as much social as
technical barriers.


Milan, For visibility, I'd be glad to hear you announce when your fix
has been integrated.  First integration is a significant milestone and
nice sense of accomplishment that is good to share.  Keep in mind
though, you'd best work for your own enjoyment and satisfaction.  Peer
esteem is something that builds over a sustained period.  btw, you may
find this interesting...
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s13.html

as well as some other foundational writings on open source...
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html



Two days is a significant commitment to one issue when you are
learning new tools and environment.  Its the sort of determination I'd
value in the community.  You are right to be proud.  Anyone *could* do
it.  But you actually *did* do it.  Unfortunately the nature of many
systems and ours is that when they *just*work* they don't get a lot of
notice.  But you'll *know*.  Sometimes its many months later that
something I've worked on get a comment and I feel a quiet little
thrill someone found my contribution useful.

>>
>> I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get
>> some visibility in the process. If there is any interest.

Not many fixes are integrated to older releases. In the short term,
probably best for Pharo 3 & 4 to load your fix into their associated
Inbox and advise here what the package is so that someone searching
the problem months later can find it.  For Pharo 5 & 6 open issues as
Nicolai advised.  It can feel a little awkward going through the
process the first time, so keep plugging at it.  After you change is
integrated, it would be good if you can report any impediments you
encountered in the process.  Newcomers see things that the rest of us
forget and unconsciously work around after doing it a few times.

have fun,
cheers -ben

Hello Milan

Re: Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression.eml

Sujet : Re: Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression

De : Milan Vavra [hidden email]

Date : 12/6/16 21:50

Pour : [hidden email]

I have debugged the issue and figured out how to fix it. I have seen
it as an opportunity to learn Pharo debugging and I did learn a few
tricks on the way. It took me 2 full days of debugging.

Thanks for your time.
This is important because most of us are not fluent with encodings, especially me :)

It is a simple fix that works for all the Pharo versions on Windows
that have this problem. Including Pharo 6 without Nicolai's fix applied.
And it does not break any shortcuts as far as I can tell.

Super!

I was so proud of myself.

You can!
Could you sign the license agreement

    http://pharo.org/contribute

 I thought I deserved some recognition. And I
still do. It is not that someone else could not do it. I am sure that
many people would be able to do that as well. But I did take the time
to do it. And it worked. I kind of would have liked to be able to point
to it and say "I fixed that".

I know that feeling :) and this is great that you could do it.

I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was
wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive
incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but
possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think
I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. 

You are the not the first one to get such bad experience. I do not understand why people are
that stupid.

I don't think a site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves to benefit
from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to
overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time.

I understand now that mailing lists have several good qualities that
stackoverflow.com does not have: posts can not disappear. People can not
anonymously make you look bad even if they are incompetent in the subject
matter.

Don't get me wrong. I'm ok with being told that I'm ugly or stupid
if I understand what it is that is disliked. 

We are not like that. Pharo is our systems and people are here to improve it.
Open a bug entry on fogbugz and people will comment positively.

    http://pharo.org/contribute

But I do not like places
where anonymous bullying is actively encouraged. Hey I even got a 'Peer
Pressure' badge for deleting my down voted post.

This is why we do not really like people having strong opinion while being anonymous.
You can have a strong feeling but not bashing for bashing.

So much for context.


I understand that Nicolai is working on a fix of his own. The preliminary
version for future Pharo 6.0 shows promise. With it, it is possible to
type all the russian characters. Even with the fix it is not possible
to type the Latin 'č' but I guess that can be fixed too.

Back to business:

Is there anyone out there using Pharo 3, 4, 5 or 6 on Windows that would
benefit now from being able to type the characters č, Č, ě or Russian Ё,
Л, М, Н, О, П in Workspace/Playground and System Browser?

It would be nice for Pharo 5. Since it will be the official version for about more than a year.

I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get
some visibility in the process. If there is any interest.


Milan





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Hi Milan,

First of all, welcome in our community.

We do not maintain StackOverflow and the experience that you have there is not representative for our project. This mailing list(s), the Slack team and the issue tracker are.

Btw, debugging for 2 days is a great way to start learning Pharo. And we do appreciate the effort. Please do engage with us. We want your energy and your commitment.

Cheers,
Tudor



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www.tudorgirba.com
www.feenk.com

"Don't give to get. Just give."

Thank you all,
your feedback is appreciated.

You have raised many points and so I probably won't be addressing
them all. But thanks again for all. I did read all the responses.
I will re-read them for more inspiration.

I understand posting on this list is like going into a room with over
a 100 people and saying something. So if 100 people spend 10 minutes to
read this - that's a lot of minutes.

So I don't want to waste your time. Feel free NOT to read this.  But if
you do read this, there is an attempt at a joke towards the end. You
might even find it funny. Or not.

I'm posting this through Nabble and it seems to post everything I post
twice. Once as 'Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list' and as 'Milan Vavra'
too. I have no idea why. Enlighten me if you can.

My original motivation was and is to be able to show to a potential
employer before and/or during the interview the sort problem fixing that
I can do. Even should the job have nothing to do with Smalltalk or Pharo
(then it might be an opportunity for a little Pharo/Smalltalk evangelism
but I digress). If there is an easy way to show that version X has a
problem - then I can show that I have the skills to fix that. If it is
fixed in the meantime I can just point to the fixed version Y and say:
"yeah, I fixed that". If there is some supporting evidence that should
give more credibility to my other claims that are unverifiable due to
the fact that they involved proprietary code that I just can not show
anyone. So their value in an interview is limited because it depends
on trust or a reference from someone else (trust again but vested in
the reference). But the Pharo fix should be an independently verifiable
claim. Of course there is a chance that I hired someone to fix that issue
for me and I don't have the skills. So a few follow up questions should
be in order to see whether or not I know what I am talking about.

On positive feedback. I think negative feedback is ok. Please
do give me negative feedback. I can take it. It can point me to
perceived problems I were not aware of. What I do want however is
***constructive*** feedback. Actionable feedback. If you have a strong
opinion state it clearly but it should be of the kind: "To do [thing]
is stupid/ugly/whatever. We/you should do [something else] because
[explanation]."


I think Peter raised the issue: "is it fair that everyone gets mentioned
even though their contributions are not comparable". I am not ashamed
to say: "YES!". However it is not the same as saying that what I can
(potentially, you have not seen it yet) do is more valuable than what
others did in making Pharo happen in the first place. I had a minor role
in the movie. But I deserve a place in the credits. If there were no you
(all of you who have contributed so far) Pharo would not be what it is
today. A sexy development environment. If there were no me, someone else
would have to step up and do what I did. I am fully aware of that. Me
trying to contribute is a "thank you" of sorts to all of you.

Small contribution with big impact. In a way it is not that small a
contribution considering the impact it can have on Pharo adoption. In
Smalltalk "a little code goes a long way". Consider this scenario,
a true story: I first downloaded my first Pharo back when 3.0 was
new. On Windows XP. I played with it a little. Got excited (sooooo
sexy!). But then came the blow. What? I can not type č? Is my keyboard
broken? Severed cable? No? Oh ok. It just won't let me. There goes my
contact management application. Bummer. It seems the IDE is not used by
anyone in the Czech Republic on Windows. Otherwise someone would have
noticed. Oh. Well. I don't have the skill to debug this yet. I am not
sure how to report this. Oh well let's wait until someone fixes this. And
it gave me the impression Pharo 3.0 is immature technology. This could
be happening in any country that uses č as part of their language
- Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovakia (Russia, Bulgaria, Croatia -
for the russian characters). A year later Pharo 4.0 came out and it
still was not fixed. Then Pharo 5.0 - same story. I have been learning
Smalltalk in small steps on Squeak and Pharo trying things from SBE
and PBE and my contact management example based on an excellent video
by Laurent Laffont. To cut a long story short only this month I have
reached the point that I was thinking maybe now I have what it takes to
fix this. And the excellent videos of the Pharo MOOC definitely played
a part too. Thanks to everyone involved. Anyway I tried to debug this
issue and it worked. So what if you were able to wave the magic wand to
make that bug go away? I have that wand. I'll see if I can jump through
the hoops of the contribution process although it might take some time.

On a lighter note, I had a bright vision of how I could get some credit
for being able to fix this. I would find hire some really hot hostess
or two for an upcoming Pharo conference in Prague. They would have the
following on their T-shirts. One: 'č, Č, ě, Anyone?' and the other
'Ё ,Л, М, Н, О, П, Anyone?' and 'Ask me how' on the back. :-). And
their job would be to hand out my email address to anyone interested. Or
even point to me standing in the distance. I bet they would command
some attention.

Mentoring. It would be nice to know how to find a mentor for the contribution
process, possibly beyond.

Thanks for your attention,
Milan

Thank you all,
your feedback is appreciated.

You have raised many points and so I probably won't be addressing
them all. But thanks again for all. I did read all the responses.
I will re-read them for more inspiration.

I understand posting on this list is like going into a room with over
a 100 people and saying something. So if 100 people spend 10 minutes to
read this - that's a lot of minutes.

So I don't want to waste your time. Feel free NOT to read this.  But if
you do read this, there is an attempt at a joke towards the end. You
might even find it funny. Or not.

I'm posting this through Nabble and it seems to post everything I post
twice. Once as 'Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list' and as 'Milan Vavra'
too. I have no idea why. Enlighten me if you can.

My original motivation was and is to be able to show to a potential
employer before and/or during the interview the sort problem fixing that
I can do. Even should the job have nothing to do with Smalltalk or Pharo
(then it might be an opportunity for a little Pharo/Smalltalk evangelism
but I digress). If there is an easy way to show that version X has a
problem - then I can show that I have the skills to fix that. If it is
fixed in the meantime I can just point to the fixed version Y and say:
"yeah, I fixed that". If there is some supporting evidence that should
give more credibility to my other claims that are unverifiable due to
the fact that they involved proprietary code that I just can not show
anyone. So their value in an interview is limited because it depends
on trust or a reference from someone else (trust again but vested in
the reference). But the Pharo fix should be an independently verifiable
claim. Of course there is a chance that I hired someone to fix that issue
for me and I don't have the skills. So a few follow up questions should
be in order to see whether or not I know what I am talking about.

On positive feedback. I think negative feedback is ok. Please
do give me negative feedback. I can take it. It can point me to
perceived problems I were not aware of. What I do want however is
***constructive*** feedback. Actionable feedback. If you have a strong
opinion state it clearly but it should be of the kind: "To do [thing]
is stupid/ugly/whatever. We/you should do [something else] because
[explanation]."


I think Peter raised the issue: "is it fair that everyone gets mentioned
even though their contributions are not comparable". I am not ashamed
to say: "YES!". However it is not the same as saying that what I can
(potentially, you have not seen it yet) do is more valuable than what
others did in making Pharo happen in the first place. I had a minor role
in the movie. But I deserve a place in the credits. If there were no you
(all of you who have contributed so far) Pharo would not be what it is
today. A sexy development environment. If there were no me, someone else
would have to step up and do what I did. I am fully aware of that. Me
trying to contribute is a "thank you" of sorts to all of you.

Small contribution with big impact. In a way it is not that small a
contribution considering the impact it can have on Pharo adoption. In
Smalltalk "a little code goes a long way". Consider this scenario,
a true story: I first downloaded my first Pharo back when 3.0 was
new. On Windows XP. I played with it a little. Got excited (sooooo
sexy!). But then came the blow. What? I can not type č? Is my keyboard
broken? Severed cable? No? Oh ok. It just won't let me. There goes my
contact management application. Bummer. It seems the IDE is not used by
anyone in the Czech Republic on Windows. Otherwise someone would have
noticed. Oh. Well. I don't have the skill to debug this yet. I am not
sure how to report this. Oh well let's wait until someone fixes this. And
it gave me the impression Pharo 3.0 is immature technology. This could
be happening in any country that uses č as part of their language
- Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovakia (Russia, Bulgaria, Croatia -
for the russian characters). A year later Pharo 4.0 came out and it
still was not fixed. Then Pharo 5.0 - same story. I have been learning
Smalltalk in small steps on Squeak and Pharo trying things from SBE
and PBE and my contact management example based on an excellent video
by Laurent Laffont. To cut a long story short only this month I have
reached the point that I was thinking maybe now I have what it takes to
fix this. And the excellent videos of the Pharo MOOC definitely played
a part too. Thanks to everyone involved. Anyway I tried to debug this
issue and it worked. So what if you were able to wave the magic wand to
make that bug go away? I have that wand. I'll see if I can jump through
the hoops of the contribution process although it might take some time.

On a lighter note, I had a bright vision of how I could get some credit
for being able to fix this. I would find hire some really hot hostess
or two for an upcoming Pharo conference in Prague. They would have the
following on their T-shirts. One: 'č, Č, ě, Anyone?' and the other
'Ё ,Л, М, Н, О, П, Anyone?' and 'Ask me how' on the back. :-). And
their job would be to hand out my email address to anyone interested. Or
even point to me standing in the distance. I bet they would command
some attention.

Mentoring. It would be nice to know how to find a mentor for the
contribution
process, possibly beyond.

Thanks for your attention,
Milan














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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Milan Vavra via Pharo-users
<[hidden email]> wrote:

You wont get the best value from this bringing it up as a new topic in
an interview.  Interviews are a big cost for the employer and usually
by the time you get there, they already think they want you.  The
interviewer already has an agenda basically verifying things they have
already learnt about you.  What you want to do is get it on the agenda
pre-interview, to help you get through the front door to interview
stage.  The *very* best thing you can do is write a blog about your
experiences, then link to it on your resume.  The interviewer *will*
review it and they "get to know you" - which really helps you stand
out in their mind from all the other pieces of paper that float across
their desk.  Take a few articles to write about your journey
discovering Pharo, intermediate experience, what makes it stand out
from other environments and culminate in describing your feelings
about making your first contribution and *why* you've chosen to do so.
You might even get your post linked from Pharo Weekly.

btw, after your contribution is integrated, submit your details to be
added to pharo contributors
http://pharo.org/about




I don't really want to be the one to discourage hot hostesses ;) but I
think this would come across a bit false - like buying your way to
fame.  Your money is probably better spent on donating a few pizzas to
the hacking sessions that often accompany these events.  Or offer your
time and effort into help organise the event (plus you end up
interfacing with a lot of people.)  If you a up for public speaking,
be the one introducing the speakers, or get a ten minute presentation
slot just to introduce yourself and give a newcomers perspective, for
other newcomers in the audience to identify with and perhaps be
encouraged to follow the same path.

cheers -ben

>
> Mentoring. It would be nice to know how to find a mentor for the
> contribution process, possibly beyond.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Milan

Hi Milan

are you attending ESUG?
Because this is a nice way to meet people.
ESUG has special prices because we always prefer more people than more
money ;)

Just keep going having fun with Pharo.
Sorry that we did not fix this before (BTW there is an accent in my
first name and you cannot imagine the number of time it is broken
especially in US :).
Stef

Hi Stef,

I was thinking it might be a good idea to attend the conference. I'm not
sure I can make it, but if at all possible I want to go. After all it
is quite close to home for me - being a Czech citizen I would only need
to travel nationally.

I even had a flash of inspiration (thank you Ben) - I could give a short
10 minute talk in English with the title

'Člověče, nezlob se! - How to use the time machine for debugging'.

I would give beginners like myself a little demo of how I debugged the
issue and reveal the fix towards the end. Very dramatic :-).

'Člověče, nezlob se!' is the name for the Ludo board game in Czech,
literally it means 'do not get angry' and it also happens to contain
all the accented latin characters that can not be typed on the Windows
versions of Pharo.

Obviously if I had to talk at the conference, I would HAVE TO attend :-).

Milan





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Here's what you can do to be able to type c with caron in Pharo 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 on Windows:

You perform a little bit of brain surgery on the event handling.

*** Warning! This could void your warranty! ***
If you do this wrong, your image might stop responding to keystrokes
or mouse or just freeze altogether. Save any important data
you may have in the image before you proceed.

You modify
HandMorph>>#generateKeyboardEvent:
as follows.
After a line that goes
        charCode := evtBuf sixth.
you put another one that looks like this:
        charCode > 255 ifTrue: [ keyValue := 0 ].
Save.
Done.

If you did it right, you can now type c with caron and friends.

Specifically c with caron, e with caron, uppercase E with caron.
And some uppercase cyrilic characters.

What this does is that it trusts that the value in charCode is more reliable than
that in keyValue. The national characters with Unicode code points of over 255
get passed in to the image from the vm with bogus value of keyValue so if we
see a Unicode character with a code point of over 255 we zero the bogus value
so it can do no harm.

Best Regards,

Milan Vavra

Here's what you can do to be able to type c with caron in Pharo 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
on Windows:

You perform a little bit of brain surgery on the event handling.

*** Warning! This could void your warranty! ***
If you do this wrong, your image might stop responding to keystrokes
or mouse or just freeze altogether. Save any important data
you may have in the image before you proceed.

You modify
HandMorph>>#generateKeyboardEvent:
as follows.
After a line that goes
        charCode := evtBuf sixth.
you put another one that looks like this:
        charCode > 255 ifTrue: [ keyValue := 0 ].
Save.
Done.

If you did it right, you can now type c with caron and friends.

Specifically c with caron, e with caron, uppercase E with caron.
And some uppercase cyrilic characters.

What this does is that it trusts that the value in charCode is more reliable
than
that in keyValue. The national characters with Unicode code points of over
255
get passed in to the image from the vm with bogus value of keyValue so if we
see a Unicode character with a code point of over 255 we zero the bogus
value
so it can do no harm.

Best Regards,

Milan Vavra




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