Hi Andreas,

Thanks a lot for this info. I'll try it, or I might just wait till the 3.10
image reaches some stability, provided your changesets will be incorporated
there, and port my whole app to 3.10 for further development.

Jens



Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens -
> 
> The problem you see comes from the VM now universally taking UTF-8 and 
> your (3.9) image being unaware of this situation. You will have to apply 
> the changes available here:
> 
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6523
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6525
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6526
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
> Jens Moenig wrote:
>> dear squeakers,
>> 
>> I have run into two problems after switching from a 3.9.2 vm to the
>> current
>> 3.10.6 in a deployed application using the current stable 3.9 image. The
>> main reason for switching was the new splash feature, which does help a
>> lot
>> on slower machines. However there seems to be an issue with special
>> characters (German Umlaute, sharp s's and paragraph characters).
>> 
>> The first problem is, files containing such characters (Umlaute) are
>> shown
>> garbled in StandardFileMenu.
>> 
>> Interestingly these 'garbled' file(name)s load perfectly ok from
>> StandardFileMenu as well as using Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 3, or
>> FileStream requestDropStream: n. But it just doesn't look nice in a
>> deployed
>> application, and I don't really want to restrict users' creativity in
>> composing inventive fileNames ;-).
>> 
>> The second problem is, these special characters simply get lost in the
>> clipboard.
>> 
>> This is somewhat worse, because my application builds on user defined
>> strings as Dictionary keys. Whenever someone  pastes such a string from
>> another place in or outside the image using the clipboard it first has to
>> be
>> manually corrected, otherwise things don't work out.
>> 
>> As I'm mostly just 'lurking' in here I'm not sure if this problem has
>> been
>> reported before or - indeed - if it's a problem for others as well or
>> just a
>> side effect of the unicode effort aparently going on. For the moment, I
>> have
>> switched back to the 'vintage' 3.9.2 vm (which works just fine). But I
>> wouldn't want to be 'left bedind', so any help is appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Jens
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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