[Seaside] Understanding encodings in Seaside 3.0

[John Pierce]

Thanks Philippe,

Problem solved! Reading the JS file as binary and returning it as a
ByteArray stream works perfectly. I appreciate the assist and I'll
watch the issues list to see how this unfolds.

Thanks,

John

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead
anywhere. -- Frank A. Clark



On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Philippe Marschall
<philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/26 John Pierce <john at pierce.name>:
>> My Configuration:
>>
>> 1. Mac running Squeak VM 4.2.2b1
>> 2. Using Pharo 1.0 image
>> 3. Installed Seaside 3.0a5 from seaside.st builder script
>> 4. Using Comanche HTTP server
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> I am trying to write a SeaKEdtior (pronounced CKEditor) class that
>> extends WAFileLibrary. Instead of embedding all the numerous
>> JavaScript, CSS, and otherwise files from CKEditor.com, I just want to
>> unzip them in my image's default directory and serve them directly
>> from Squeak using Seaside's file handler and my custom SeaKEditor
>> class that streams content from the file system.
>
> If you're serving files from the file system what I would recommend is
> reading the files in #binary mode and putting the response in #binary
> mode as well when writing to it.
>
> If you don't do that you need to read the file using the right
> encoding. Seaside will then convert it to the output encoding.
>
> You're right there a bug in Seaside preventing utf-16 to work [1].
>
>  [1] http://code.google.com/p/seaside/issues/detail?id=569
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>