2016-06-12 22:30 GMT+02:00 Milan Vavra via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>:
> > > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > From: Milan Vavra <vavra_mi...@yahoo.com> > To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:50:27 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression > I have debugged the issue and figured out how to fix it. I have seen > it as an opportunity to learn Pharo debugging and I did learn a few > tricks on the way. It took me 2 full days of debugging. > > It is a simple fix that works for all the Pharo versions on Windows > that have this problem. Including Pharo 6 without Nicolai's fix applied. > And it does not break any shortcuts as far as I can tell. > > I was so proud of myself. I thought I deserved some recognition. And I > still do. It is not that someone else could not do it. I am sure that > many people would be able to do that as well. But I did take the time > to do it. And it worked. I kind of would have liked to be able to point > to it and say "I fixed that". > > I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was > wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive > incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but > possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think > I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. I don't think a > site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves to benefit > from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to > overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time. > > I understand now that mailing lists have several good qualities that > stackoverflow.com does not have: posts can not disappear. People can not > anonymously make you look bad even if they are incompetent in the subject > matter. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm ok with being told that I'm ugly or stupid > if I understand what it is that is disliked. But I do not like places > where anonymous bullying is actively encouraged. Hey I even got a 'Peer > Pressure' badge for deleting my down voted post. > > So much for context. > > > I understand that Nicolai is working on a fix of his own. The preliminary > version for future Pharo 6.0 shows promise. With it, it is possible to > type all the russian characters. Even with the fix it is not possible > to type the Latin 'č' but I guess that can be fixed too. > > Back to business: > > Is there anyone out there using Pharo 3, 4, 5 or 6 on Windows that would > benefit now from being able to type the characters č, Č, ě or Russian Ё, > Л, М, Н, О, П in Workspace/Playground and System Browser? > > I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get > some visibility in the process. If there is any interest. > > > Hi Milan, there are different ways to fix this bug. One way is to clean up the keystroke handling - that is what I am working on. If you have a fix for an intermediate solution, feel free to submit your solution. (see http://pharo.org/contribute) best nicolai > Milan > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-5-accented-chars-bug-regression-tp4898863p4900559.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
