[Seaside] Accented characters

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 14:58:34 UTC 2006


2006/7/27, Koji Yokokawa <koubo2006 at yengawa.jpn.org>:
> I struggled to use Japanese on Seaside recently.
>
> The problem is not only about accented characters (Unicode). The cause
> of that is a lack of the fundamental facility, 'charset', in Seaside.
> Charset is very important especially in Asia. Many of Asian sites uses
> various local charset not Unicode in reality.
>
> Umezawa-san and I made a patch for internationalization of
> Seaside2/Squeak. This patch fixes the problems cause of charset
> encodings (includes Unicode) on Seaside2.6b1. It makes WAKom (NOT
> WAKomEncoded) handle Charset, XHTML lang, encoded filenames and encoded URL.

I think this should be done by WAKomEncoded instead of WAKom. WAKom is
supposed to do no conversion at all and thus effectively deals with
byte arrays rather than strings.

Like said before, for some people it's perfectly ok to have raw utf-8
(or whatever encoding) strings in the image. Others even want it that
way.

> http://squeaksource.blueplane.jp/Seaside2I18N/
> (This is a project on the SqueakSource in *Japanese*, however you can
> load it into your image without any changes.)

The problem is that this is not at all portable. I will only work on
Squeak 3.9 with Kom. No other Squeak, not other Smalltalk, no other
http server.

Philippe


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