On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:09 30AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I got an error (on Ubuntu 9.10) trying open an old text file that I created 
> on Windows some time ago.  The encoding (if gedit's save-as dialog can be 
> trusted??) is Western ISO-8859-15; resaving as utf8 lets me read it.
> 
> So, is Pharo working by design?  Did I do the correct/only thing needed to 
> read the file?  What should I be asking?  Is there anything I can do to turn 
> this into a useful test/debugging example?
> 
> Bill
> 

This is not an error per se, seeing as the encoding is not utf8 :)

If the import was done from some tool instead of in your code (in which case 
you'd set the encoding of the file stream), a nicer *behavior* might be for the 
UI Manager to catch encoding errors when trying to read a file, and offer up a 
dialogue with a list of encodings which the file *can* be read as, along with a 
preview window of what the text would look like with the selected encoding, 
like some word processors do.

Cheers,
Henry
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