[Seaside] 3.9 and encoding

[Philippe Marschall]

Well it kinda depends. It is really two things, bug fixes and
semantics changes and depending on point of view the semantics changes
are a bugfix. The bug fixes surely helps but the different semantics
in 3.8 vs. 3.9 make it hard to support Squeak 3.8 and 3.9 at the same
time.

I wasn't bashing anyone, just pointing out that the different
semantics require different client code in 3.8 vs. 3.9.

Cheers
Philippe


2007/3/1, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr>:
> Just a question.
> We introduced this change in 3.9 because apparently it was important.
> Certainly suggested by an eminent seasider.
> Now I would like to know if this was correct (ie it fixed a problem)
> and I would like to avoid to give the impression that "they broke
> again something in 3.9" because I can tell you that we ***really***
> payed attention. This is also because of that kind of atmosphere
> and regular bashing that we lost marcus.
>
> Stef
>
>
> > 2007/2/28, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I ran into a encoding problem. I'm using seaside together
> >> with Glorp. For the web server I use WAKomEncoded39.
> >> WAKomEncoded39 converts the output to the browser to utf-8.
> >> But on incoming requests the url escaped characters are
> >> translated to something different. For me it appears to
> >> be latin-1 but I've no glue why it should be that way.
> >> I detected it because my postgresql session has client
> >> encoding utf-8 turned on and I get an error trying to
> >> store strings containing characters like ö.
> >
> > If you run WAKomEncoded39 on Squeak 3.9 you will have strings with
> > (new) Squeak encoding in your image which is basically non-unified
> > unicode. For latin-1 characters this will be indistinguishable from
> > latin-1. If your database is utf-8 you need to encode your strings to
> > utf-8 when writing them to your database and decode your strings from
> > utf-8 when reading from the database (only to convert it back to utf-8
> > when generating html). You can configure the PostgreS database driver
> > to do this automatically for you.
> >
> > An other option is to have utf-8 strings in your image. On Squeak 3.9
> > this requires WAKom and a modified version of KomHttpServer not
> > publicly available. This has the advantage that you don't need to do
> > encoding conversion it has however the disadvantage that it won't work
> > with the debugger, #size doesn't work and directly indexing into the
> > string (creating substrings) won't work too. Additionally you need to
> > convert you string literals to utf-8 (unless they're ascii).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> >> I read on the net that this has something to do with 3.9.
> >> Is this still true? Is there a way to make it run or is
> >> the only way to go back to 3.8?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Norbert
> >>
> >>
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