[Seaside] Re: Latin-1 for SeaSide: howto?

[Avi Bryant]

On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:37 AM, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> It should at least be a configuration option for people who want to
> manipulate data freely in Squeak and in the WWW interface. I
> understand that if you do not display in Morphic data received from
> outside, you will not encounter this problem and do not want go
> through a two-steps null operation.

It's not a null-op, because both conversions are lossy - "aString 
squeakToIso isoToSqueak = aString" is very likely to be false.  And I 
think the majority of users are in the same position as Lukas, with the 
data staying in latin-1 the whole time from database to web browser and 
back, so I'd rather not convert to latin-1 by default.  What I would 
suggest you do is subclass WAHtmlRenderer and do the conversions there 
(if you override just #text: and #textInputWithValue:callback:, you'll 
get nearly all the cases, and you can fill in the gaps as you find 
them).  That lets you do conversions for both input and output in the 
same place, and it's easy to plug in - just override #rendererClass in 
your components to return your Latin1Renderer.

Avi