On 12 Jul 2011, at 18:12, Lukas Renggli wrote: >> What do you mean with 'whatever you do, you end up with a broken system' ? >> Any concrete examples ? > > If you do not encode, then you have "unreadable" strings in the image > and operations like #copyFrom:to:, #size, #indexOf:, ... might answer > unexpected or invalid results, because UTF-8 strings are just treated > as byte arrays.
Not the way to go IMO. > If you do encode, then you have "readable" strings in the image but > you might run into widestring/encoding problems (check the open issues > on the tracker). I just commented on http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2353 which seems to be the most important one. I can't reproduce this (anymore). http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=830 seems specific to the changelog http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2697 is an MC problem The next 2 I reported myself, they are encoding/decoding problems: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3360 http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4187 >> Do you have a pointer to Philippe's presentation ? > > http://www.slideshare.net/esug/esug-unicode Thx, reading... Sven
