On 12 March 2018 at 10:03, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> do not forget also that there is an entire chapter on FileSystem in here:
>
> http://files.pharo.org/books-pdfs/deep-into-pharo/2013-DeepIntoPharo-EN.pdf
>
> And I particularly recommend everybody dealing with files to read about how
> to manage encodings in here:
>
> http://files.pharo.org/books-pdfs/entreprise-pharo/2016-10-06-EnterprisePharo.pdf
Cool! I wasn't aware of the section on character encoding, it's
probably the best introduction to character encoding I've read.
There is one important mistake in the examples. On page 46 it gives
the following code:
'encoding-test.txt' asFileReference writeStreamDo: [ :out |
(ZnCharacterWriteStream on: out binary encoding: #utf8)
nextPutAll: 'Hello'; space; nextPutAll: 'Ελλάδα'; crlf;
nextPutAll: 'Les élèves français'; crlf ].
This won't work reliably as #writeStreamDo: (and #readStreamDo:) use
MultiByteFileStreams, which are not binary by default.
It really should be (in Pharo 7, I haven't checked pharo 6)
#binaryWriteStreamDo: and #binaryReadStreamDo:, i.e.:
'encoding-test.txt' asFileReference binaryWriteStreamDo: [ :out |
(ZnCharacterWriteStream on: out binary encoding: #utf8)
nextPutAll: 'Hello'; space; nextPutAll: 'Ελλάδα'; crlf;
nextPutAll: 'Les élèves français'; crlf ].
Cheers,
Alistair
(I know I should submit a PR for this, but I'm suffering a personal
interrupt stack overflow at the moment)
