[Seaside] [ANN] New Seaside tutorial

[Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez]

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/10/25, Miguel Cobá <m.coba.m at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 10/25/07, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2007/10/25, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez < m.coba.m at gmail.com>:
>>>> Michael Perscheid wrote:
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>
>>>>> We proudly present a new Seaside tutorial (for Squeak 3.10 and Seaside
>> 2.8).
>>>>> This tutorial was produced by the Software Architecture Group at the
>>>>> Hasso-Plattner-Institute (University of Potsdam). In ten chapters we
>>>>> describe step by step the development of a ToDo-application and
>> thereby
>>>>> demonstrate the main parts of the sophisticated web framework Seaside.
>>>>> Since this is the first version we hope that you can help to improve
>> the
>>>>> quality by providing feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a look at:
>> http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial
>>>> Hi, excellent tutorial.
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem though.
>>>> I have added the method
>>>>
>>>> charSet
>>>>      ^ 'iso-8859-1'
>>>>
>>>> to StSession in order to correctly display characters in spanish (á, é,
>>>> etc).
>>>>
>>>> I had 4 task in my todo list but the accented characters showed as a
>>>> weird symbol with a question mark in it (�). So I added the said method.
>>>>   The text displayed correctly after that.
>>>> Then I added the 5 task and instead of my todo list all I got was a page
>>>> full of  weird question marks characters:
>>>>
>>>> <���!���D���O���C���T���Y���P���E���
>> ���h���t���m���l���
>>>> ���P���U���B���L���I���C���
>>>> ���"���-���/���/���W���3���C���/���/���D���T���D���
>>>> ���X���H���T���M���L��� ���1���.���0���
>>>> ���S���t���r���i���c���t���/���/���E���N���"���...
>>>>
>>>> Thinking this had something to do with the charSet method, I removed it.
>>>> Nothing. The same page full of weird characters.
>>>>
>>>> Questions:
>>>> Has someone had a problem like this? Is there a solution?
>>>>
>>>> How can I input accented characters in a form and have Seaside manage
>>>> them correctly?
>>>>
>>>> Seaside generate a default charset of utf8, but my seaside session
>>>> outputs á as � unless I manually change the encoding to iso-8859-1 in
>>>> the View -> char encoding menu of firefox. Is this the intended
>>>> behavior? My debian environment is all in utf8 encoding.
>>> How did you install Seaisde? With the installer or Universes? Do you
>>> have spanish characters in the source code as well?
>>  Sorry for not providing that information.
>>
>> I have squeak 3.9.8-2 installed using aptitude from
>>
>> deb     http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/ stable main
>>
>> the image from squeak is version 3.9.7067.1
>>
>> Later I downloaded the squeak-web image from Damien Cassou
>> sq3.10-7137web07.08.1.zip and that is the image I use for seaside learning.
>> The version of seaside in the squeak-web image is Seaside2.8a1-1r.428
>>
>> This is a snipet of my code with characters in spanish:
>> From StLoginComponent>>renderContentOn:
>>
>> renderContentOn: html
>>
>>     html div
>>         class: 'generic';
>>         with:[
>>              html heading: StToDoLibrary applicationName.
>>             html render: self messageComponent.
>>             html text: 'Ingrese con su email y contraseña (no use la
>> contraseña de su email real):'.
>>              html form:[
>>                 html textInput
>>                     on: #email of: self;
>>                     value: ''.
>>                 html space.
>>                 html passwordInput
>>                     callback:[:value | self password: (MD5
>> hashMessage: value) asInteger asString];
>>                     value: ''.
>>                 html submitButton
>>                     callback:[self validateLogin];
>>                     text: 'Login'.
>>                 html paragraph
>>                     with:[    html anchor
>>                                 callback:[self
>> registerUser];
>>                                 with: [html text:
>> 'Registrarse para ', StToDoLibrary applicationName.]]]].
>>
>> Where I use the character ñ (&ntilde; in html) and it is displayed, before I
>> added the charSet message, as �.
> 
> Try running your session as charSet 'utf-8' (the default) but use
> WAKomEncoded39 instead of WAKom.

It works now. I have done, in a workspace:

WAKom stop

and then:

WAKomEncoded39 startOn: 8080

The characters are displayed ok now.

Thank you very much.
Miguel Cobá

> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
> 
>> Miguel Cobá
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>> Again, good job.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Miguel Cobá
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Michael Perscheid
>>>>>
>>>>>
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