2009/7/11 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> These are pretty much guaranteed not to be related to the original problem.
> All of these reports are Mac VM issues and the original report was on
> Windows Vista. I'd like to raise a slightly different question though:
>
> At Qwaq, we've changed our utf8ToSqueak version to assume that the input is
> in Latin-1 when "invalid input" is encountered. That's because we've never
> found a situation where one wouldn't be better off to silently accept the
> input (regardless of whether it's actually UTF-8, Latin-1 or whatever else)
> instead of blowing up. I wonder what people think about that?

It is just a way of masking bugs. At that point the only thing you
know is that the input is not utf-8. Coming up with some random
encoding is likely to produce corrupted data. For Seaside this would
be horrible.

Cheers
Philippe