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Andreas.Raab

UTF-8 status of VMs?

Folks -

Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by
now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM
should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and
directory names, clipboard contents, etc?

I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with
all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM
we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.

Cheers,
- Andreas

johnmci

Re: UTF-8 status of VMs?

mac is utf8 for file api, drag drop, and clipboard.

On 2010-02-12, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Folks -
>
> Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and directory names, clipboard contents, etc?
>
> I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>

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Andreas.Raab

Re: UTF-8 status of VMs?

Thanks John, that's *great* news!

Cheers,
- Andreas

John M McIntosh wrote:

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> mac is utf8 for file api, drag drop, and clipboard.
>
> On 2010-02-12, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> Folks -
>>
>> Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and directory names, clipboard contents, etc?
>>
>> I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
>>
>
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> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
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Bert Freudenberg

Re: UTF-8 status of VMs?

IIRC Ian's VM still defaults to MacRoman. For Etoys we explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8 in the launch script.

How about we require a "4.x" VM to use only utf-8?

- Bert -

On 12.02.2010, at 14:10, Andreas Raab wrote:

>
> Thanks John, that's *great* news!
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> mac is utf8 for file api, drag drop, and clipboard. On 2010-02-12, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> Folks -
>>>
>>> Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and directory names, clipboard contents, etc?
>>>
>>> I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Andreas
>>>
>> --
>> ===========================================================================
>> John M. McIntosh <[hidden email]> Twitter: squeaker68882
>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
>> ===========================================================================

Andreas.Raab

Re: UTF-8 status of VMs?

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> IIRC Ian's VM still defaults to MacRoman. For Etoys we explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8 in the launch script.
>
> How about we require a "4.x" VM to use only utf-8?

That would be just wonderful :-)

Cheers,
- Andreas

> On 12.02.2010, at 14:10, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Thanks John, that's *great* news!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
>>
>> John M McIntosh wrote:
>>> mac is utf8 for file api, drag drop, and clipboard. On 2010-02-12, at 10:58 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>> Folks -
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick check on the status of UTF-8 support in the VMs. Do we by now have agreement that all strings coming into the VM and out of the VM should be in UTF-8 by default? Including, but not limited to file and directory names, clipboard contents, etc?
>>>>
>>>> I'd really like to simplify some of the code to not have to deal with all of these conversions and simply assume that on any path into the VM we perform a UTF-8 conversion and get over with it.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - Andreas
>>>>
>>> --
>>> ===========================================================================
>>> John M. McIntosh <[hidden email]> Twitter: squeaker68882
>>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
>>> ===========================================================================
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