#9620 NORM 1.5-F11: Etoys does not work with Chinese input

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#9620: Etoys does not work with Chinese input
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 Reporter:  sayamindu       |                 Owner:  bert         
     Type:  defect          |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal          |             Milestone:  1.5-F11      
Component:  etoys-activity  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                  |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0               |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                  |              Blocking:               
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 Steps to reproduce:

 1. Install OS 36

 2. Change value of LANG in /home/olpc/.i18n to zh_CN.UTF-8

 3. Change value of XKB_VARIANT in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to olpc2
 (XKB_LAYOUT should be US)

 4. Restart Sugar

 5. Verify that Chinese input is working by trying the language-switch
 button and typing something in the mesh-search-bar.

 6. Start Etoys and try to type something in Chinese.

 Expected results:

 Chinese characters should appear, along with the PinYin input bar in the
 lower left corner

 Actual Results:

 Characters from the standard QWERTY keyboard appear


 Additional Notes:

 The squeak VM needs to be started with the -compositioninput option (this
 can be done via the etoys script in /usr/bin). However, even after that,
 Chinese characters appear correctly only after the locale (LANG, LC_ALL
 env variables) are set to ja_JP.UTF-8

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9620>
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