[squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Mon Apr 12 21:56:23 UTC 2021


Hi Christoph,

either that or the image could support unicode characters. :)
Btw, my text-based email client doesn't support that character either.
It shows an inverted question mark instead.


Levente

On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Thiede, Christoph wrote:

> 
> Hi Levente,
> 
> 
> I see your point, but maybe it would be a better idea to choose another fallback character for unknown characters instead of sticking with these old character limitations. :-) That question mark has confused me already too
> often. Maybe something like ??? or □? But we would need to patch all fonts in the image to make this possible ...
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu>
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. April 2021 23:47:28
> An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Mail daemon problems with Unicode?  
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> It's more likely that squeaksource doesn't handle WideStrings in commit
> messages properly.
> Also, I discourage the use of emojis in commit messages. Yours appears as
> a question mark in my image, which changes the meaning of the message
> quite a bit:
> 
> Removes #testHandlerFromAction from expectedFailures because it now finally works ?
> 
> 
> Levente
> 
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > do the mail daemons that are responsible for informing the list about new inbox/trunk versions (probably a part of SqueakSource) have a problem with Unicode? My inbox version Tests-ct.449 was uploaded to the inbox, but as
> far
> > as I can see, a notification email did not arrive. However, older and newer versions were announced as usual.
> >
> >
> > Here is the header of the relevant version:
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Name: Tests-ct.449
> > Author: ct
> > Time: 12 April 2021, 9:20:22.70324 pm
> > UUID: f8408deb-6994-0e40-aff1-b3c551b424c4
> > Ancestors: Tests-nice.447
> >
> > Removes #testHandlerFromAction from expectedFailures because it now finally works 🎉
> >
> > ---
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> >
> 
>


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