Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at squeakland.org> wrote:
> I wrote:

> > It seems that MultiByteFileStream truncates the stream 
> incorrectly. You'll have to adjust the value of file 
> accordingly, but print this:
> > 
> > | file |
> > file := 'C:\Program 
> Files\Squeak-3.2.2\email-file-repository\bfav.squeakfoundation
> .org\emails\26180.eml'.
> > MultiByteFileStream readOnlyFileNamed: file
> > 
> > Is that because MultiByteFileStream needs a better/more appropriate
> > converter? ("MultiByteFileStream new converter" gives me
> > "Latin1TextConverter".)
> 
>   The change set seems to be in latin-1 encoding.  My question is how
> Göran created that change set.
> 
>   In 3.8 beta/gamma era, a change set should be in MacRoman if the
> file doesn't begins with three octet UTF-8 BOM, namely 100% compatible
> with pre-3.8, or in UTF-8.
> 
>   Some program inbetween might convert it to latin-1, I'd suppose.

Ah, which means that I might have grabbed the wrong end of the stick - maybe BFAV's writing out the changesets in the wrong encoding? I'll have to look further.

Thanks, Yoshiki!

frank


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