[Seaside-dev] Encoding issues? Entering 'euro sign' into a text input breaks render

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/10/16, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk>:
> Hello all,
>
> I've discussed this briefly before on the list, following my
> contribution regarding encoding more characters than what the (X)HTML
> spec defines - but did not have an example at the time.
>
> However, I have just stumbled upon a significant problem which I wanted
> to raise as an issue to the dev-list; that is that Seasides rendering
> does not like the Euro-symbol.
>
> The simplest example:
>
> renderContentOn: html
>   html form with: [
>     html textInput callback: [ :x | text := x ].
>     html paragraph with: text.
>     html submitButton
>   ]
>
> On the form, enter a Euro symbol (ALT+0128 on Windows) in the text box
> and submit.
>
> After submitting, it is very obvious that there is a problem (the screen
> will be filled with characters that cannot be rendered.)
>
> Just incase it is something I am doing wrong, I have attached a file-out
> of the example component. If anyone could confirm this is a problem/bug
> then I shall submit a bug-report, providing it is not already reported :).
>
> However, I've also noticed that the WAEncoder>>initializeBMP does not
> reach the range necessary to encode the euro (Character value: 1069555884)
>
> P.S. Tested with the latest version available in Monticello as of today,
> and this is on Squeak 32bit 3.10 vm on Windows platform.

What combination of WAKom* and KomHttpServer do you run?
WAEncodingTest under /seaside/test/alltests should test this exact
scenario and run.

Cheers
Philippe

> Regards,
> John
>
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> 'From Squeak3.9 of 7 November 2006 [latest update: #7067] on 16 October 2007 at 11:50:34 am'!
> WAComponent subclass: #BrokenEuro
>         instanceVariableNames: 'text'
>         classVariableNames: ''
>         poolDictionaries: ''
>         category: 'MyStuff'!
>
> !BrokenEuro methodsFor: 'rendering' stamp: 'jmt 10/16/2007 10:58'!
> renderContentOn: html
>         html form with: [
>                 html textInput callback: [ :x | text := x ].
>                 html paragraph with: text.
>                 html submitButton
>         ]! !
>
> "-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- "!
>
> BrokenEuro class
>         instanceVariableNames: ''!
>
> !BrokenEuro class methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'jmt 10/16/2007 11:49'!
> canBeRoot
>         ^true! !
>
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