UTF support in Linux?

>
> Hi all,
>
> In the Linux VM, when I try to input, via paste or the right alt
> combination, non-ascii characters, like 'ö' or 'é' for example, Squeak
> merely shows 'o?' or 'e?' I researched into this and accordingly  
> chose a
> font that supports UTF-8 and set the locale and VM command line  
> options
> appropriately:
>
> export LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
> locale-gen en_IE.UTF-8
> (...which claims that locale is upto date...)
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
> (...which outputs en_IE.UTF-8... done among other things....)
> squeak -encoding UTF-8 -textenc UTF-8 -pathenc UTF-8
> Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image
>
> Now when I try to input the aforementioned characters I encounter a  
> debug
> message: "Error subscript is out of bound."
>
> However, I have set Squeak's language to Spanish and then German,  
> and the
> characters display perfectly well in the menus. Although, the same  
> cannot be
> said for the any files with non-ascii characters in the file  
> dialogue. So,
> it seems it's an input problem.
>
> Anyone with any ideas? Thanks.

> [1]
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-March/126727.html
>
>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 08.07.2008 um 23:09 schrieb smith02243:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In the Linux VM, when I try to input, via paste or the right alt
>>> combination, non-ascii characters, like 'ö' or 'é' for example,  
>>> Squeak
>>> merely shows 'o?' or 'e?' I researched into this and accordingly
>>> chose a
>>> font that supports UTF-8 and set the locale and VM command line
>>> options
>>> appropriately:
>>>
>>> export LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
>>> locale-gen en_IE.UTF-8
>>> (...which claims that locale is upto date...)
>>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
>>> (...which outputs en_IE.UTF-8... done among other things....)
>>> squeak -encoding UTF-8 -textenc UTF-8 -pathenc UTF-8
>>> Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image
>>>
>>> Now when I try to input the aforementioned characters I encounter a
>>> debug
>>> message: "Error subscript is out of bound."
>>>
>>> However, I have set Squeak's language to Spanish and then German,
>>> and the
>>> characters display perfectly well in the menus. Although, the same
>>> cannot be
>>> said for the any files with non-ascii characters in the file
>>> dialogue. So,
>>> it seems it's an input problem.
>>>
>>> Anyone with any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>> This has only been addressed recently, and may not have found its way
>> into a release yet.
>>
>> You need the very latest Squeak VM (3.10-1 at least). It supports
>> Unicode keyboard events (which are passed to the image as UTF32).
>>
>> To make use of these events your image needs to be using
>> UTF32InputInterpreter. Evaluate
>>
>> ActiveHand keyboardInterpreter
>>
>> to see the currently used one. It can be changed by patching
>> Latin1Environment class>>inputInterpreterClass.
>>
>> I don't know if this is in any official release yet, or scheduled for
>> one.
>>
>> Some relevant change sets from the Etoys image seem to be
>>
>> http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1713UnicodeInput1-yo.cs
>> http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1714UnicodeInput2-yo.cs
>> http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1925unixLatin1Input-yo.cs
>> http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1935unicodeFallback-bf.cs
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
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