<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven@stfx.eu" target="_blank">sven@stfx.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Command line arguments enter the image level via VirtualMachine>>#getSystemAttribute:<br>
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At that point they are already Strings.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ByteString, according to the primitive. So if the shell supplies e.g. UTF-8 strings for command-line parameters, which the VM sees as bytes, then the ByteString instances answered by getSystemAttribute: would need decoding, right?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">In your case, they must already be wrong at that point.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not necessarily. The getSystemAttribute: primitive doesn't do decoding. Perhaps it should.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> On 20 Jan 2015, at 16:51, Hilaire <<a href="mailto:hilaire@drgeo.eu">hilaire@drgeo.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Le 20/01/2015 16:34, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :<br>
>> No they are not - Strings and Characters in Pharo are using plain Unicode encoding internally.<br>
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> Thanks for the update, and the reference link.<br>
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