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Re: Error:invalid utf8 input detected.

Posted by Mariano Martinez Peck on Jun 24, 2010; 8:07am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Error-invalid-utf8-input-detected-tp2068483p2266606.html

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, tgc05 <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Stef. I would have thought the VM initialize processing could be changed to avoid this problem, but I don't know the details :)

Hi Thomas. I cope paste here what I said before:

"More in details, the problem is that when you pass an image, it is interpreted as "SmalltalkImage current getSystemAttribute: 1"
When you drag a second file (in your case a second image) it is interpreted as source file, not image, and thus the error with the encoding.
Put a breakpoint in the method startUpAfterLogin if you want to experiment a bit.

At least with this, you know why it was the problem and how to avoid it. Maybe we should raise a better error or even better, if I have already defined an image in the ini file, but I drag another one, override the first one and take the dragged one. I will ask in Pharodev mailing list."

So what I recommend you is to put a breakpoint in startUpAfterLogin and start to play. And let us know what happens.

Thanks

Mariano

If the problem cannot be fixed, or if it will take time, it would be good to have the work-around described in the "Pharo By Example" book. That is, to comment out or delete the line "ImageFile=Contents\Resources\Pharo-1.0.image" in Pharo.ini. Without this fix, a new Smalltalker will hit the error as soon as they try to use the PBE.image file.

Image file management is one of those things that I like to get a clear understanding of at an early stage when learning a new dev environment.

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On 22 June 2010 17:47, Stéphane Ducasse [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]> wrote:

thanks thomas.
This problem was reported on the squeak-vm mailing-list and there is not much we can do.
May be I'm wrong.

Stef

On Jun 22, 2010, at 6:38 PM, tgc05 wrote:

>
> Hi. I just want to let people know that this problem is listed on the Pharo
> application issues page at
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2374&q=INI%20FILE&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Milestone%20Difficulty#makechanges
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2374&q=INI%20FILE&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Milestone%20Difficulty#makechanges

>
> Issue 2374: Dragging a .image in a Windows VM raises an error
>
> Hope this is fixed soon, since it also affects anyone working through the
> early sections of the "Pharo By Example" book.
>
> --Thomas.
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