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>
>
> Hello!
>
>
> I'm Robert and I'm developing in Smalltalk for 10 years by now. I'm
> looking for and alternative smalltalk and I would like to port some
> existing applications from VisualAge.
>
> I started to read some Squeak documentation, and it seems to be great
> (both the documentation and Squeak itself!).
>
> However, I have a very basic question I can't figure out, maybe because
> the answer is trivial.
>
> I'm Hungarian and our software code and applications conatin national
> character strings. This is quite normal :)
>
> On Linux I have this setting: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
>
> Squek starts with no problem, and keyboard is working well, all
> characters are on its right place, so the Hungarian keyboard and
> settings are working well, but there are two Hungarian specials for
> which nothing appears.
>
> These are o with double acute and u with double acute (o" u" O" U" -
> just imagine the double acute above the o-s and u-s) both regular and
> capital. Simply nothing is displayed. It usually mens that there is no
> glyph for those in the character set applied - but I'm not sure.
> On windows these ar in Central European sets (Win1250 or ISO-8859-2),
> and naturally, all unicode sets contain these...
>
> Before I start any migration tests I must be know the answers about this
> very little but very essential problem.

> RK ha scritto:
> Hi Robert,
>
> it might be that the fonts in your image do not have glyphs for the
> two characters you want to type. Try importing some TTF fonts that you
> know support those characters, switch your image to use these fonts,
> and check if you can get them on screen.
>
>     Ciao,
>
>         Giovanni
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> Giovanni,
>
> thanks!
>
> >it might be that the fonts in your image do not have glyphs for the two
> characters you want to type.
> >Try importing some TTF fonts that you know support those characters,
> switch your image to use these fonts
> >and check if you can get them on screen.
>
> Could you please help me how? Is it documented somewhere?
>
> best regards
>
> Robert
>
> > RK ha scritto:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > it might be that the fonts in your image do not have glyphs for the
> > two characters you want to type. Try importing some TTF fonts that you
> > know support those characters, switch your image to use these fonts,
> > and check if you can get them on screen.
> >
> >     Ciao,
> >
> >         Giovanni
> >
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>
>  David,
>
>  Thank you very much for the details!
>
>  I was able to find what "Universes" is...
>  But now facing another problem...
>
>  I have Gentoo Linux. I have Squeak 3.9.7 and squeak-fullimage 3.8.6665.
>
>  Universes says that "The package has no published release for your squeak
> version" Is it the image or the VM infrastructure that causes the problem?
>
>  Questions:
>  - Should I download another image manually? Will itt work on this
> infrastructure?
>
>  3.9-7 #1 2007. dec.  4., kedd, 20.31.26 CET gcc 4.1.2
>  Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
>  Linux tpgentoo 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #3 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 5 18:28:56 CET 2007
> i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>  default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
>
>  - Should I download another precompiled squeak version with its images?
> (sounds bad, as the strength of gentoo is to manage packages by itself and
> compile them locally...)
>
>  It's getting to be complicated...I just wanted some special characters to
> be displayed... :) How often does it happen that someone is forced to change
> version? What about backward compatibility? I'm thinking of migrating some
> of our key applications but I wouldn't like to go to a never-ending version
> and download-hunt to keep it alive afterwards.
>
>  //I may have to contact the gentoo ebuild maintaner of squeak and ask to
> upgrade, or do it myself, however, I do afraid I can't as I'm a SMALLTALK
> developer, not C :)  //
>
>  Thanks and sorry for the very basic questions - I've read somewhere that
> this forum is just for this :) :)
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Robert
>
>
>  Load Andy Tween's TrueType support from package Universes. It picks up
> the fonts on Unix and Windows. Haven't tried MacOSX yet.
>
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> Image is the issue here I think. 3.9 VM is supported by FreeType. My
> images are 3.9 and 3.10.
>
> I'm no Linux expert, but I play with it at home.
>
> I made a gentoo box last year and it was a little too bleeding edge
> for me. I'm on Ubuntu now.
>
> The easiest distro I've found for Ubuntu is the One-Click Installer.
> Just put it on last night and it just worked. Nice thing about
> One-Click is that it is totally portable to Windows (and I've heard,
> but not tested, Mac). First thing I did was to pull in the FreeType
> fonts. Took less than 10 minutes.

> Image is the issue here I think. 3.9 VM is supported by FreeType. My
> images are 3.9 and 3.10.
>
> I'm no Linux expert, but I play with it at home.
>
> I made a gentoo box last year and it was a little too bleeding edge
> for me. I'm on Ubuntu now.
>
> The easiest distro I've found for Ubuntu is the One-Click Installer.
> Just put it on last night and it just worked. Nice thing about
> One-Click is that it is totally portable to Windows (and I've heard,
> but not tested, Mac). First thing I did was to pull in the FreeType
> fonts. Took less than 10 minutes.
>
> http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/10/seaside-one-click-experience/
>