[squeak-dev] Invalid UTF-8 input detected

Hi Bèrto -

This looks like a bug in the UTF-8 conversion that the VM does. I'll check it. As a workaround, you can try an earlier VM to see if this helps.

Cheers,
 - Andreas

Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:

Hi all,

I have a weird thing happening. I downloaded the latest squeak and when it opens it immediately delivers this error. Okay, so I open and close the emergency evaluator then I can work. But as soon as I try to save an updated image... here we go again. So no saving, which is obviously bad.

Running on
XP pro 2002 version, SP2 (russian edition)
Squeak 3.10.2

It looks like the problem is connected to my filesystem strings.
In secureUserDirectory
dir := self primSecureUserDirectory.

generates a string in the form path+username which results in trouble: 'C:\Program Files\Squeak\Áýðòó'. My username on the system is in cyrillic, and this really looks like it.

Then in convertFromWithConverter (ByteString) the exception is raised.

I've been googling a bit about this, but I cannot seem to find much. Any hint at what we should do? It does look like a problem that is going to occur over and over again, and since the app I'm about to write deals with languages and thousands of different scripts... This is a bit worrying.

Let me know.
Bèrto

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Hi again,

I just verified that the current Seasuide release works perfectly.
This one: http://www.seaside.st/resources/distributions/Seaside-2.8.2.app.zip
Have no idea of what VM they mount, though.

Bèrto

2008/6/17 Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>:

Hi Bèrto -

This looks like a bug in the UTF-8 conversion that the VM does. I'll check it. As a workaround, you can try an earlier VM to see if this helps.

Cheers,
 - Andreas

Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:

Hi all,

I have a weird thing happening. I downloaded the latest squeak and when it opens it immediately delivers this error. Okay, so I open and close the emergency evaluator then I can work. But as soon as I try to save an updated image... here we go again. So no saving, which is obviously bad.

Running on
XP pro 2002 version, SP2 (russian edition)
Squeak 3.10.2

It looks like the problem is connected to my filesystem strings.
In secureUserDirectory
dir := self primSecureUserDirectory.

generates a string in the form path+username which results in trouble: 'C:\Program Files\Squeak\Áýðòó'. My username on the system is in cyrillic, and this really looks like it.

Then in convertFromWithConverter (ByteString) the exception is raised.

I've been googling a bit about this, but I cannot seem to find much. Any hint at what we should do? It does look like a problem that is going to occur over and over again, and since the app I'm about to write deals with languages and thousands of different scripts... This is a bit worrying.

Let me know.
Bèrto

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It was meant to be "Seaside", obviously :)

2008/6/19 Bèrto ëd Sèra <[hidden email]>:

Hi again,

I just verified that the current Seasuide release works perfectly.
This one: http://www.seaside.st/resources/distributions/Seaside-2.8.2.app.zip
Have no idea of what VM they mount, though.

Bèrto

2008/6/17 Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>:

Hi Bèrto -

This looks like a bug in the UTF-8 conversion that the VM does. I'll check it. As a workaround, you can try an earlier VM to see if this helps.

Cheers,
 - Andreas

Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:

Hi all,

I have a weird thing happening. I downloaded the latest squeak and when it opens it immediately delivers this error. Okay, so I open and close the emergency evaluator then I can work. But as soon as I try to save an updated image... here we go again. So no saving, which is obviously bad.

Running on
XP pro 2002 version, SP2 (russian edition)
Squeak 3.10.2

It looks like the problem is connected to my filesystem strings.
In secureUserDirectory
dir := self primSecureUserDirectory.

generates a string in the form path+username which results in trouble: 'C:\Program Files\Squeak\Áýðòó'. My username on the system is in cyrillic, and this really looks like it.

Then in convertFromWithConverter (ByteString) the exception is raised.

I've been googling a bit about this, but I cannot seem to find much. Any hint at what we should do? It does look like a problem that is going to occur over and over again, and since the app I'm about to write deals with languages and thousands of different scripts... This is a bit worrying.

Let me know.
Bèrto

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