[Box-Admins] Fwd: [squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?

[Vanessa Freudenberg]

Forwarding to the authorities to deal with ;)

–Vanessa–

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From: Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>




Le mar. 13 avr. 2021 à 19:00, Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> a écrit :

> > Or try https://source.squeak.org/inbox.html and click on News...
>
> Ouch. Sorry for that ...
>
>
> Never mind, the server has already improved, but is not an example of
continuous deployment, no matter how agile Squeak can be... Maintenance
means lots of efforts from very few persons, so our attitude is kinda
conservative. Losing the server is the last thing that we want (it happened
in the past for squeaksource.com, for ever if a user put a Character value
> 255 in its initials...).

> Can't you remove it via Monticello? Or will the problem be solved just by
> merging it and uploading another version on top of it?
>
I had thought of overloading a newer version, but I don't know what happens
at image side, or whether or copy of overriden is kept or what... I prefer
to let the authorities deal with it.

> Best,
>
> Christoph
> ------------------------------
> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 13. April 2021 18:51:02
> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* Re: [squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?
>
> The fun of it is that the package cannot be browsed nor moved to treated
> via web interface...
> https://source.squeak.org/inbox/Tests-ct.449.diff
> Or try https://source.squeak.org/inbox.html and click on News...
> It will have to be removed manually (unless we fix more unicode at server
> side...)
>
> Le lun. 12 avr. 2021 à 23:56, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi Christoph,
>>
>> either that or the image could support unicode characters. :)
>> Btw, my text-based email client doesn't support that character either.
>> It shows an inverted question mark instead.
>>
>>
>> Levente
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi Levente,
>> >
>> >
>> > I see your point, but maybe it would be a better idea to choose another
>> fallback character for unknown characters instead of sticking with these
>> old character limitations. :-) That question mark has confused me already
>> too
>> > often. Maybe something like ??? or □? But we would need to patch all
>> fonts in the image to make this possible ...
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Christoph
>> >
>> >
>> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>> > Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
>> Auftrag von Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu>
>> > Gesendet: Montag, 12. April 2021 23:47:28
>> > An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> > Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?
>> > Hi Christoph,
>> >
>> > It's more likely that squeaksource doesn't handle WideStrings in commit
>> > messages properly.
>> > Also, I discourage the use of emojis in commit messages. Yours appears
>> as
>> > a question mark in my image, which changes the meaning of the message
>> > quite a bit:
>> >
>> > Removes #testHandlerFromAction from expectedFailures because it now
>> finally works ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Levente
>> >
>> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > do the mail daemons that are responsible for informing the list about
>> new inbox/trunk versions (probably a part of SqueakSource) have a problem
>> with Unicode? My inbox version Tests-ct.449 was uploaded to the inbox, but
>> as
>> > far
>> > > as I can see, a notification email did not arrive. However, older and
>> newer versions were announced as usual.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Here is the header of the relevant version:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ---
>> > >
>> > > Name: Tests-ct.449
>> > > Author: ct
>> > > Time: 12 April 2021, 9:20:22.70324 pm
>> > > UUID: f8408deb-6994-0e40-aff1-b3c551b424c4
>> > > Ancestors: Tests-nice.447
>> > >
>> > > Removes #testHandlerFromAction from expectedFailures because it now
>> finally works 🎉
>> > >
>> > > ---
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Best,
>> > >
>> > > Christoph
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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