[Vm-dev] Re: Unix VM path encodings

[John M McIntosh]

On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Due to a bug reported against Qwaq Forums I needed to look into how  
> the Unix VM encodes file and path names and got terribly confused.

Also see

	From: 	bert at impara.de
	Subject: 	Re: mac carbon VM goes to unix file names, testers needed

	Date: 	February 6, 2006 12:54:17 AM PST (CA)

> We've been using UTF-8 VM encoding for a while, to be able to access  
> files with non-ASCII characters in their path. However, I haven't  
> found a way to permanently switch the image (3.8) to UTF-8 encoding.  
> It keeps resetting to Latin1 on startup. The only solution for me  
> was to put this line in my own startup code:
>
> 	LanguageEnvironment classPool at: #FileNameConverterClass put:  
> UTF8TextConverter
>
> Did anybody create a better solution than this horrible hack? I feel  
> someone else must be using UTF-8, too, now that we support it ...
>
> - Bert -

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