[Seaside] Re: String encoding

[Igor Stasenko]

2008/4/22 Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> 2008/4/22, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
>  > 2008/4/22 Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  > > 2008/4/22, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
>  >  >
>  >  > > okay, i figured it out by implementing a #charSet method in my session
>  >  >  >  subclass to return iso charset instead of utf-8.
>  >  >
>  >  >  That sounds more like a hack until the problem gives up rather than a
>  >  >  fix. Could you answer:
>  >  >  - what encoding your web page should have
>  >  >  - what encoding the strings in your image should have
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
>  > 'ISO-8859-1' for both web page & squeak.
>  >  But of course, i would prefer using utf-8 for webpage and let seaside
>  >  auto-translate my strings from ISO-8859-1
>
>  If you want ISO-8859-1:
>  - be sure you really want ISO-8859-1, strictly speaking ISO-8859-1
>  does not even include the Euro symbol but most browsers are not that
>  picky
>  - use ISO-8859-1 both on the web page and in Squeak (this avoids many problems)
>  - implement the #charSet method in your session class and return 'iso-8859-1'
>  - use WAKom
>

Yes, that how its currently works.

>
>  >  >  Since you are dealing with Squeak literals, it might be better to use
>  >  >  WAKomEncoded and utf-8 in the web and Squeak encoding in your image.
>  >  >
>  >
>  > Can you be more specific, where i can set preferences or make changes
>  >  to achieve above?
>
>  - if you use Squeak 3.10 or 3.9.1 be sure to update to Seaside 2.8.1
>  - remove the #charSet method from your session class (use the one from
>  WASession, 'utf-8')
>  - WAKom stop.
>  - WAKomEncoded startOn: thePort
>

Aha, and here is alternative for making squeak use own encoding, but
render page with different encoding.
Thank you for enlightenment :)

>  Cheers
>  Philippe
>
>
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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.