[Seaside-dev] Encoding issues? Entering 'euro sign' into a text
input breaks render
Philippe Marschall
philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 16:38:41 UTC 2007
2007/10/17, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk>:
> I have 3.10.2 vm, Windows XP (32Bit)
>
> Seaside 2.8beta from SqueakMap, with "Yes" to all options (Kom,
> Scriptaculous, RSS) Just reinstalled to confirm.
>
> KomHttpServer-pmm.2 - yes.
> Seaside2.8a1-pmm.476 - yes
>
> /seaside/tests/alltests (encoding) multipart fails for Euro symbol, and
> other unicode chars. (prime, left side quote, etc) Same error(s) as before.
>
> The sample code I provided in my first mail also breaks with the same
> result.
Wow, this is getting really strange, I just did the same and still can
not reproduce:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3742/shotih6.png
You did not change something in the session or browser properties? Is
there some way how you could build a clean image that exposes the bug
and give it to me?
Cheers
Philippe
> Thanks and regards,
> John.
>
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > 2007/10/16, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk>:
> >> So what am I to use instead? I've not seen anything about an alternative.
> >>
> >> I used SeasideInstaller - I always did, yet it left me with what I have
> >> been having trouble with today - the encoding test failing, and Seaside
> >> rendering breaking on any "special" character. I only installed other
> >> versions of KomHttpServer in a bid to try and fix this problem.
> >
> > Ok, this is different then, you have my full attention. So lets recap:
> > - you use Squeak 3.9, correct?
> > - you use SeasideInstaller from SqueakMap, which version, 2.8beta?
> > - you use WAKom
> > - /seaside/tests/alltests the "Encoding" tests fails?
> > Anything else? I just did all this for Windows XP and a 3.10.6 VM and
> > the tests work. Can you confirm that you have KomHttpSever-pmm.2 and
> > Seaside2.8a1-pmm.476? This is configuration that is really supposed to
> > work. If this really doesn't work for you then I need your image
> > because otherwise I'm not able to reproduce this bug.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> >> Regards,
> >> John
> >>
> >> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> >>> 2007/10/16, John Thornborrow <john at pinesoft.co.uk>:
> >>>> I orignally had the Package Universe version of KomHttpServer (6.2) and
> >>>> received the same results - the test does not pass.
> >>> Then you did use WAKom in a Squeak 3.9 image. As noted several times
> >>> this is not supported. This is a bug in KomHttpServer. We contacted
> >>> the maintainer and sent him patches (2 methods). He's too busy.
> >>>
> >>>> The same is also true for many other characters, unicode 2000+ also
> >>>> cause the test and Seaside to fail rendering.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is proving to be havoc for my clients who are copying from Word
> >>>> documents made by publishers who make use of left/right-side quotes,
> >>>> primes etc. in their documents and wish to publish them on the web in
> >>>> HTML form. I agree, this is not your problem, it is mine, but surely you
> >>>> must be able to see that it is something to consider, rather than just
> >>>> sticking to the still-not-yet-fully-supported-by-browsers (X)HTML standards?
> >>> XHTML has _nothing_ at all to do with it. Just that the specified and
> >>> actual encoding don't match. You want options? I'll give you options.
> >>> They all work with all the languages you get on
> >>> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html, not only the euro symbol.
> >>>
> >>> - use the attached KomHttpServer version. This is the one from the
> >>> SeasideInstaller. This makes WAKom and WAKomEncoded work on Squeak 3.9
> >>> - use http://squeak.krampe.se/KomHttpServer-gk.14.mcz this makes
> >>> WAKomEncoded39 work on Squeak 3.9
> >>>
> >>> Anything beyond that I don't care.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Philippe
> >>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> John
> >>>>
> >>>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> >>>>> 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: '€' ] .
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 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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> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl - www.blackspider.com
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> '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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