Thanks so much Bert!

I was pointing in the wrong direction !  I have changed the textedit
preferences and it works perfectly.

All the best,
                         Javier


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
> Am 08.09.2008 um 14:15 schrieb Javier Reyes:
>
>
>  Hello All,
>> I am using text morphs which may contain extended ascii characters (in my
>> case spanish characters 'ñáéíóú').  When I save those morphs and bring them
>> back to screen everything works fine. My problem comes when I write the
>> morphs contents to a plain .txt file (which in my case has to be opened with
>> TextEdit in Mac Osx). In that case the special characters are expanded into
>> several.
>>
>> I am working with Squeak 3.9 in Mac OsX.  I have tried UTF8TextConverter
>> but I am obviously doing something wrong (My knowledge of this issue is
>> really scarce) . My code can be sumarized with this snippet.
>>
>>
>> tm := TextMorph new openInHand.
>> (I write inside the morph some text contaning special chars, such as
>> 'bañándose')
>>
>> (Then I write it to a file)
>> utfString := (tm contents string) convertToWithConverter:
>> (UTF8TextConverter new).
>> aFile:= CrLfFileStream forceNewFileNamed: './myfile.txt'.
>> aFile nextPutAll: utfString.
>> aFile close.
>>
>> And that's it. When I open the file in TextEdit I get 'bañándose'.
>>  I have tried out some other bizarre strategies but they dont work either
>> :-(
>>
>> Thanks very much for your help,
>>
>
>
> TextEdit tries to guess the encoding and often gets it wrong. You can set
> the encoding it uses in its preferences.
>
> And this code
>
>        f := FileStream forceNewFileNamed: 'myfile.txt'.
>        f nextPutAll: 'bañándose'.
>        f close
>
> works just fine for me, it produces utf8-encoded text.
>
> (you should not use CrLfStream anymore)
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>
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