Problem with encoding and double quotes

Hi! I am having a problem with encoding and I am not sure if it is a bug or if it is correct. I copy Pier and Pharo mailing list.

I am in Linux and when I write a double quote I write something like this: "Muelle Almirante Storni"

If I write in OpenOffice, when I type the double quote key, OpenOffice writes something like this:  “Muelle Almirante Storni”

Notice that the quotes are these last ones are twisted and the first were straight.


If I copy paste "Muelle Almirante Storni"  in a workspace of Pharo, it is perfectly understood. But if I paste  I get:
  ?Muelle Almirante Storni?

Now...I am developing a pier application my main problem is that my "functional information" is in .doc so they that the twisted ones. As they are put in the image trought Pier and a KomEncoded, there is not problem....until I try to search on the string. If I evaluate:

' “Muelle Almirante Storni”' findString: 'esquel' startingAt: 1 caseSensitive: false
This has a problem (index out of range) because internaly it tries to ask the asciiValue and this answers 2881 -> absurd

Now, my solution is everytime I copy paste the text from a .doc to a Pier page I have to replace those twisted quotes for the straight ones.

Is this a bug? or it is just like this ?

thanks

mariano



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>>>>> "Mariano" == Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> writes:

Mariano> If I write in OpenOffice, when I type the double quote key, OpenOffice
Mariano> writes something like this:  “Muelle Almirante Storni”

That's Windows-1252.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

It's not going to be interpreted properly unless everything beyond
that treats it as Windows-1252, and not ASCII or ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8,
none of which would like \223 and \224 as open and close quote.

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