> On 24 Sep 2018, at 21:55, Alistair Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Guille, Sven, Esteban and Everyone,
>
> Can someone (dis)confirm that the Zinc-Character-Encoding-Core package is
> considered part of the pharo "core" image?
Yes, for me anyway, it is (or should be) part of core.
> The reason I ask is that I'd like to know whether the File class (which
> is part of the Files-Core package) can count on ZnUTF8Encoder (which is
> part of the Zinc-Character-Encoding-Core package) being present in the
> image.
>
> If File can count on ZnUTF8Encoder being present then for FileAttributes
> I will make UTF8 encoding / decoding available from File, and thus UTF8
> file names will be supported. If it can't count on ZnUTF8Encoder being
> present then File will only be able to handle ascii file names (unless
> the names are somehow already UTF8 encoded) and support for UTF8 file
> names will effectively be restricted to FileSystem.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alistair
>
