[squeak-dev] Squeak mac carbon VM 4.1.0b1 goes out.
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Apr 21 21:25:57 UTC 2009
I've placed it in the usual places via
http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
4.1.0b1 has a number of changes that impact users of older images and
non-pharo users. As you know the different VMs have been moving
towards supplying file/directory information and providing clipboard
support for UTF-8. So today is the day to move forward by making
UTF-8 the default, rather than optional.
(a) I have altered the Info.plist to say file/directory names are
UTF-8. If your image does not contain fixes for the file browser, or
having MC being UTF-8 aware then you will have issues with file names
that contain accented characters. These can be files in the same
directory as the file you are interested in since the squeak file
directory logic iterates over the directory contents for some
operations.
(b) The clipboard changes from macroman to UTF8, again you may require
fixes in order to successfully copy/paste accented characters to/from
the application.
(c) The UTF8 for the clipboard required linking the powerpc binary
with Apple's 10.4 SDK versus 10.3. I have not tested if the VM will
run and have clipboard support on 10.2 or 10.3 systems. If you rely
on a 10.2 or 10.3 system you should confirm if it works, or if it
fails. If someone can confirm if there is a problem I will look into
providing a workaround.
**********I note in Pharo copying "Caño del día" from the Finder to a
method didn't really work the way I thought it would, however it
didn't throw a UTF-8 input error. Likely someone on the Pharo team
should do some cross checking for me *******
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