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unicode (non-English) text input problem
Vano Zemlja
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Join date: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 3
01-16-2007 06:37
Hi,

I got SL 1.13.1.6 working on my SuSE 10 with nvidia 6200, although initially I also had this damned window creation problem. So far the client works fine with the only exception: I'm not able to enter non-english letters in chat. (I guess it won't work in other areas also.) In my case I try to enter Russian letters, but I'm sure this problem is not russian-specific.

If anyone has an idea of how to fix this, I'll appreciate greatly.

Thanks.
Vano Zemlja
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Join date: 30 Dec 2006
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01-16-2007 07:27
I just want to add that I solved the russian text display problem by substituting .ttf files in the SL's fonts/ directory with cyrillic-enabled fonts from Windows. Russian keyboard input problem remains.
Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
01-16-2007 11:04
What SDL version do you have on your system? If it's lower than 1.2.10, it might help to upgrade (please let us know) since that version contains better support for international input.
Vano Zemlja
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Join date: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 3
sdl upgrade helped
01-16-2007 14:34
Dear Tofu,

I had SDL 1.2.8 and upgraded to 1.2.11.1 and it helped! Now I can chat in Russian. Thank you very much!
Tofu Linden
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Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
01-17-2007 02:44
Cool, thanks for letting us know!
Seishi Stine
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 4
02-04-2007 06:07
Hi,

I got First Look 1.13.3.57520 on my Fedora Core6, although I'm also not able
to enter non-japanese letters in chat. but japanese letters can be displayed
in chat windows.

Can anyone give us a clue how to resolve this?

Thanks.
Seishi Stine
Registered User
Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 4
02-04-2007 06:55
sorry non-japanese →　japanese
Seagel Neville
Far East User
Join date: 2 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,476
02-05-2007 06:54
From: Seishi Stine
Hi,

I got First Look 1.13.3.57520 on my Fedora Core6, although I'm also not able
to enter non-japanese letters in chat. but japanese letters can be displayed
in chat windows.

Can anyone give us a clue how to resolve this?

Thanks.
Seishi, although you are asking about First Look, can you imput Japanese in Linux i686?
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Seishi Stine
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 4
02-06-2007 02:17
Dear Seagel

Last night I tried Linux i686, but I was not able to enter japanese letters in chat.
Does this problem lie in my Linux setting or not?
Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
02-06-2007 02:28
Hi Seishi!
Does it work better on First Look 1.13.3.57679? That version includes an SDL version with better unicode input.
Seishi Stine
Registered User
Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 4
02-06-2007 02:39
Dear Tofu

thank you, I try it !!
Seagel Neville
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Join date: 2 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,476
02-06-2007 02:40
From: Seishi Stine
Dear Seagel

Last night I tried Linux i686, but I was not able to enter japanese letters in chat.
Does this problem lie in my Linux setting or not?
I've never heard that even only one person could make it. But as Tofu mentions, you should try using the latest first look. Good luck.
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Alderic LeShelle
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Join date: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 104
03-12-2007 10:07
From: Seagel Neville
I've never heard that even only one person could make it. But as Tofu mentions, you should try using the latest first look. Good luck.


1.13.3.59036 on an AMD64, Ubuntu 6.10. Used Ubuntu-provided 32-bit SDL library, used SDL library accompanying the SecondLife client package, tried around with keyboard settings and locale, nothing helped.

Furthermore, got a lot of error messages
"LLLocale: Failed to set locale en_US.utf8"