Hi,

Thanks!  This is now on the ftp site as:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7alpha/mac/squeak3.7.0b1-mac-vm.
sit

cheers

bruce

John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:52:55 -0800
> From: John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
> Subject: Mac VM 3.7.0b1
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> I've pushed a Mac VM 3.7.0b1 for testing to
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/
> 
> Squeak 3.7.0Beta1.app.sit
> 
> It contains:
> 
> a) the fix for using 2.8.x image and getting mouse clicks in the right  
> place.
> b) 8bit monitor support
> c)  Changes for the "m17n" package fromTetsuya HAYASHI  
> <tetha at st.rim.or.jp> so one can type Kanji characters.
> 
> d) Most importantly you can alter the application's Info.plist and set  
> the SqueakEncodingType between 0 to 4
> to signify
> 
> MacRoman = 0,
> WindowsLatin1 = 1, /* ANSI codepage 1252 */
> ISOLatin1 = 2, /* ISO 8859-1 */
> Unicode = 3
> UTF8 = 4
> 
> This then alters what the VM returns for the vmPath name, the image  
> name, the image path name,
> the "SecurityManager default untrustedUserDirectory", "SecurityManager  
> default secureUserDirectory"
> and of course file name/path names that come out of or go into the VM.
> 
> Pending is to rework the path name lengths and file name lengths to  
> reflect reality a bit better, so I've not yet posted the source code  
> changes.
> 
> I'll welcome folks who use languages other than USA english to check  
> for issues.
> Hint file names/folder names with interesting characters in UTF8 mode  
> come to mind.
> 
> PS I suspect picking Unicode won't get you very far, it occurs to me  
> that I'd bet that some strcpy
> logic lurks and the high zero byte in unicode will truncate things.. Oh  
> well, that's tomorrow's fight.
> 
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