[Seaside-dev] encoding/decoding Streams

[Philippe Marschall]

2008/7/31 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org>:
>>> The .mcz files downloaded from SqueakSource pass an ISO-8859-1 string to
>>> #encode:, and check that the result is in whatever encoding was passed to
>>> #newForEncoding:.
>>
>> No, it passes a Smalltalk string to #encode: and assumes the file in /
>> out mechanism is working.
>
> Ok, so IIUC the Squeak file in mechanism is what is assuming ISO-8859-1 for
> the source.

Honestly I don't know how the Squeak file in / out mechanism works in
detail. If it assumes ISO-8859-1 then I wonder how characters outside
Latin-1 are handled.

Cheers
Philippe