accented characters + squeak

>
>  In the workspace "print it" "234 asCharacter asString."
>  I see correctly the string with the "e" with its emphasis
>  circumflexe.
>
>  How to use accented characters in asString minimum?
>
>
>  Thank you for your help.
>
>  Herve Darce
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>>  On the side of pier, accented characters spend. By against the same
>>  asString text under squeak includes characters incomprehensible.
>>  Moreover, I can not write with the keyboard one character accentuated in
>>  squeak, it displays a debugger.
>>    
>
> You are using a different encoding on the web, than Squeak is using internally.
>
> Pier and Seaside normally treat data as byte-arrays, they don't care
> what encoding they have (that works well for what Seaside and Pier are
> doing). This is what the server-adapter WAKom is doing (or not doing).
>
> If you want to convert data coming from the web to Squeak format, then
> use WAKomEncoded instead of WAKom. This converts all data coming in
> and going out to the right format, but is also sort of slow.
>
> Don't miss the talk of Philippe:
>
>    http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2008/WideStrings+and+utf-8
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
>  

> Am 20.08.2008 um 06:19 schrieb Hervé Darce:
>
>> How to write a character accentuated with my keyboard? Squeak
>> displays the debbuger when I strike on the "é" on the keyboard. I
>> can't use accented characters into squeak with keyboard.
>> How to write a utf8 file? I am Linux utf8.
>> So How to use utf8 and not latin-1 into squeak?
>
>
> There were numerous missing pieces to make this work under Linux. But
> a couple 100 000 kids in Spanish-speaking countries were motivation
> enough to fix this in the OLPC VM and image :)
>
> You should use the very latest Linux VM (3.10-1 is the latest
> release). Your image might need fixing too, you could try if it works
> with the Etoys image (it should):
>
> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip
>
> - Bert -
>
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> Bert Freudenberg a écrit :
>> Am 20.08.2008 um 06:19 schrieb Hervé Darce:
>>
>>> How to write a character accentuated with my keyboard? Squeak  
>>> displays the debbuger when I strike on the "é" on the keyboard. I  
>>> can't use accented characters into squeak with keyboard.
>>> How to write a utf8 file? I am Linux utf8.
>>> So How to use utf8 and not latin-1 into squeak?
>>
>>
>> There were numerous missing pieces to make this work under Linux.  
>> But a couple 100 000 kids in Spanish-speaking countries were  
>> motivation enough to fix this in the OLPC VM and image :)
>>
>> You should use the very latest Linux VM (3.10-1 is the latest  
>> release). Your image might need fixing too, you could try if it  
>> works with the Etoys image (it should):
>>
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
> I have already squeak 3.10.2 (#7179)  but squeak  doesn't want  
> accented characters on the keyboard.
>
> I selected the Spanish language but nothing happens an my language,  
> french, doesn't exist.
>
> Command squeakToUtf8, utf8ToSqueak and isToUtf8  allow me to use  
> accented characters  without keyboard.

>> I have already squeak 3.10.2 (#7179)  but squeak  doesn't want
>> accented characters on the keyboard.
>>
>> I selected the Spanish language but nothing happens an my language,
>> french, doesn't exist.
>>
>> Command squeakToUtf8, utf8ToSqueak and isToUtf8  allow me to use
>> accented characters  without keyboard.
>
>
> That is all irrelevant, please read again what I wrote.
>
> - Bert -
>

>
> Hervé,
>
> Your explanation of the problem is clear; you misunderstood the advice
> you were given.
>
> Bert wanted you to check your version of the *VM*, not the *image*.
> They have very similar, but unrelated, version numbers.
>
> If you downloaded Squeak from http://squeak.org/Download, the VM you
> will have is probably 3.9.
>
> Try going to http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/ to get the very latest VM
> as Bert recommended.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>  

> Have you tried running the image from
> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip using that VM, as
> Bert suggested?
> That will allow you to identify if the problem is in the VM or the
> image. If that allows you to enter accented characters correctly, then
> the problem is with the web image, else it's a VM problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>  

>
>> Have you tried running the image from
>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip using that VM, as
>> Bert suggested?
>> That will allow you to identify if the problem is in the VM or the
>> image. If that allows you to enter accented characters correctly,  
>> then
>> the problem is with the web image, else it's a VM problem.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>>
> The image etoys.image  allows me to enter accented characters  
> correctly. Thus, the problem is this image https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/5550/sq3.10.2-7179web08.08.1.zip 
> .
> Thanks, now I know that accented characters on the keyboard can be  
> used by squeak.
>
> So how to solve the problem of my first image?

> Am 21.08.2008 um 10:14 schrieb Hervé Darce:
>
>>
>>> Have you tried running the image from
>>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip using that VM, as
>>> Bert suggested?
>>> That will allow you to identify if the problem is in the VM or the
>>> image. If that allows you to enter accented characters correctly, then
>>> the problem is with the web image, else it's a VM problem.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>> The image etoys.image  allows me to enter accented characters
>> correctly. Thus, the problem is this image
>> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/5550/sq3.10.2-7179web08.08.1.zip.
>>
>> Thanks, now I know that accented characters on the keyboard can be
>> used by squeak.
>>
>> So how to solve the problem of my first image?
>
>
> You need to apply some fixes:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2008-July/004656.html 
>
>
> They were reported to work (see that thread).
>
> I asked the last guy who ran into this to report it on
> http://bugs.squeak.org/ along with the fixes, but I'm not sure he did.
> So I do not know when it will be folded into a Squeak release.
>
> - Bert -
>
>

> Am 21.08.2008 um 10:14 schrieb Hervé Darce:
>
>>
>>> Have you tried running the image from
>>> http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip using that VM, as
>>> Bert suggested?
>>> That will allow you to identify if the problem is in the VM or the
>>> image. If that allows you to enter accented characters correctly, then
>>> the problem is with the web image, else it's a VM problem.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>> The image etoys.image  allows me to enter accented characters
>> correctly. Thus, the problem is this image
>> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/5550/sq3.10.2-7179web08.08.1.zip.
>>
>> Thanks, now I know that accented characters on the keyboard can be
>> used by squeak.
>>
>> So how to solve the problem of my first image?
>
>
> You need to apply some fixes:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2008-July/004656.html
>
> They were reported to work (see that thread).
>
> I asked the last guy who ran into this to report it on
> http://bugs.squeak.org/ along with the fixes, but I'm not sure he did.
> So I do not know when it will be folded into a Squeak release.
>
> - Bert -