[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>:
> The /seaside/tests/alltests for encoding doesn't pass - it fails with:
>
> "Internal Error
>
> MessageNotUnderstood: UndefinedObject>>asCharacter
>
> RWBinaryOrTextStream>>nextPut:
> WAHtmlEncoder(WAEncoder)>>nextPutAll:
> ByteString(String)>>encodeOn:
> WAHtmlStreamDocument>>print:
> WARenderCanvas(WAHtmlCanvas)>>text:
> ByteString(String)>>renderOn:
> [] in WAGenericTag(WATagBrush)>>with: {[self before. anObject renderOn:
> canvas. self after]}
>
> etc.."
>
> I've got the lastest KomHttpServer from squeaksource.com and I'm not
> sure what version WAKom* is - I thought this was part of the seaside
> package?

No, we only support the official one on SqueakMap and the one from
netstyle.ch which comes with the SeasideInstaller.

> I've made a work around, and that is to include:

Use one of the supported KomHttpServers. They should pass the
/seaside/tests/alltests at least in ecoding mode.

If you use an other version of Kom we don't care. We're sorry but
already supporting these is enough of a mess.

Cheers
Philippe

> aCharacter = (Character value: 1069555884) ifTrue: [^ aStream
> nextPutAll: '&euro;' ] .
>
> to the list of characters in WAHtmlEncoder class>>encode:on: but given
> the ourcome of the last time I made changes to this method, it is not
> the preferred/accepted solution.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
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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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