Yes, this is the easy part, I was speaking of how the hell we can write a
32bits Word-oriented collection into a Byte-oriented stream and magically
end up with ut-32be ;)


2013/5/23 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>

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> Am 23.05.2013 um 00:11 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
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> Yes, it's UTF-32BE, see SO post. And you get a bonus point if you can find
> by what magic this happens without tracing in a Debugger ;)
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> That one might be easy, as it bit me several times.
> First, the stream that is uses for sources.st is backed by a simple
> ByteString, but
> during the writing of the definitions, comments, etc, once you hit a
> method with a wide
> Character, its source is a WideString, and putting that onto the stream
> makes
> the underlying string #become a WideString, too. Which will then be
> written us g utf32be (as i just learned).
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> 2013/5/23 Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de>
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>> Fun fact:
>> Having one “wide” character somewhere in one method or comment and
>> Filing out an mcz, the sources.st becomes a persisted WideString (utf16?)
>> And you won't know it...
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>> Am 22.05.2013 um 23:16 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <
>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
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>> First thing would be to simplify #setConverterForCode and
>> #selectTextConverterForCode.
>> Do we still want to use a MacRomanTextConverter, seriously? I'm not even
>> sure I've got that many files with that encoding on my Mac-OSX...
>> Do we really need to put a ByteOrderMark for UTF-8, seriously? See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark, it's valueless, and not
>> recommended. It were a Squeak way to specify that a Squeak source file
>> would use UTF-8 rather than MacRoman, but now this should be obsolescent.
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>> 2013/5/22 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
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>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16645848/squeak-monticello-character-encoding
>>> Let's kill this one, it's totally insane
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