Hello

On 5/7/10, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 5/6/2010 3:32 PM, christophe.jalady at free.fr wrote:
>> But it looks like there is a bug with the encoding !
>
> The behavior you are seeing is intentional. WebClient doesn't interpret
> the content of a response. It simply gives you the bytes that you can
> deal with in any way you see fit. That includes dealing with encodings.

>> I have tried a quick test by replacing "ByteString" with "WideString" in
>> WebResponse>>content without success.
>
> Yes, you need to decode the input. You can for example use the method
> #utf8ToSqueak to decode the string into UTF-8.


I have a similar problem, I want to post a document to a couchDB
instance. Without German umlauts it works fine but if I add them I get
an error message.

host :='http://localhost:5984'.
r := WriteStream on: (String new: 1000).
d := Dictionary new. d at: 'content' put: 'äs' squeakToUtf8.
(JsonObject newFrom: d) jsonWriteOn: r.
WebClient httpPut: host, '/notes/test5' content:  r contents  type:
'text/plain;charset=utf-8'.

The error message of the WebResponse is
'{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"}
'

The same thing happens if I omit #squeakToUtf8

If I inspect
   r contents
I get
  '{"content":"\uC3\uA4s"}'


Contrariwise if I post

    host :='http://localhost:5984'.
    r := WriteStream on: (String new: 1000).
    d := Dictionary new. d at: 'content' put: 'abc' squeakToUtf8.
    (JsonObject newFrom: d) jsonWriteOn: r.
    WebClient httpPut: host, '/notes/test5' content:  r contents
type: 'text/plain;charset=utf-8'.

I get as answer
    '{"ok":true,"id":"test5","rev":"1-f40e52919735ae6775af3d388361b3da"}
    '

How is this conversion supposed to be done?

Hints and comments are appreciated.

--Hannes