[Etoys] Greek and other languages support

[spyronis at ceid.upatras.gr]

>> >     4. Evaluate:
>> >
>> > 	TTCFontSet installExternalFontFileName: 'GreekTT.out'.
>> >
>> >       to load the font file.
>> >
>> >     5. Evaluate
>> >
>> > 	newID := LocaleID isoString: 'el'.
>> > 	t := InternalTranslator
>> > 		newLocaleID: (LocaleID isoString: 'el').
>> > 	NaturalLanguageTranslator translators at: newID put: t.
>> > 	Locale switchTo: (Locale localeID: (LocaleID isoString: 'el'))
>> >
>> >      in a workspace.
>> >
>> How/Where steps 4,5 are done??
>
>   "Workspace" is a kind of command line interpreter where you can type
> and evaluate Smalltalk code snippet.  (It is just a text editor,
> actually but this is one way to look at it.)
>
>   The developer's image available at:
>
> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/etoys-dev-2.3-1815.zip
>
> is a good start.  Launch the .image in it by double clicking or
> executing command like:
>
>   % squeak etoys-dev-2.3-1815.image
>
> Make sure the computer is connected to the Internet, and press "load
> code updates" button near bottom-left in the Squeak screen.
>
>   Then, click on the empty area in the Squeak screen.  You have
> "open..." item in the "World" menu that pops up.  Click on "open..."
> and you get "workspace (k)" in the menu.  If you click on the menu
> item, you should get a white/gray window in the Squeak screen.
>
>   Copy and paste the above expressions into the workspace, and select
> the text you want to evaluate by dragging the area by mouse.  (The
> selection should be green.)  Then press "Alt-d" (i.e., hold Alt key,
> and hit "D" key).
>
>   4. will take some time (like 45 seconds).  Be patient.
>
> -- Yoshiki
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Thanks a lot for the infos.. they worked..
There are also some issues..

The 7 greek vowels take sometimes accents such as έ,ά,ό,ί,ή,ώ,ύ
The caps also: Έ,Ά,Ό,Ί,Ή,Ώ,Ό.
[Accented greek words produced when pressed ' and then the vowel]

In small caps all are supported except: έ.
In caps the only one supported is Ώ.
[note that when i type ' (accent) and then ε or E,A,H.. it appears a space
character and then the accent ']
same happens to translated .po text]

Another issue is how possibly can this work in linux squeak VM ?? (VM for
the OLPC)
What changes have to be done?? Are there any manuals/help/steps which can
help me in this task??
I must also tell you that when i run the image that worked on Windows VM
it works fine in Linux VM for the .po translated text.. The problem
appears in greek input...


Thanks again, John Spyronis.