Karl Ramberg wrote:
> 
> Frank Shearar wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Karl Ramberg [mailto:karl.ramberg at chello.se]
> > > Sent: 30 July 2004 11:53
> > > To: Squeak
> > > Subject: [BUG][BFAV][m17n]Attachments download
> > >
> > >
> > > Attachments downloaded with BAFV when m17n is installed 
> are corrupted.
> > 
> > Does this happen because of the encoding issues in the m17n 
> stuff reported by others? That Latin1/UTF-8 discussion of last week?
> > 
> I'm not sure where and how it happens. Emails appear nicely 
> in the email
> pane of 
> BFAV. Files/ Attachments  with the right filename are made and put in
> the right
> folder. But they are not gzip files. 
> I don't understand the BFAV model and how it pulls down stuff from the
> server etc.
> so it's hard to be more specific. 
> How are stuff stored on and downloaded from the BFAV server?

BFAV just stores the attachments as-is - when you download the post (say post 20254) it puts the attachment in (for example)

  C:\Program Files\Squeak-3.2.2\email-file-repository\bfav.squeakfoundation.org\emails\20254-attachments

which contains

  FixCorrectSelector-fbs.cs.gz

Do these files contain non-gzip data?

> Maybe it's the decompression after it's downloaded from the BFAV server that do this.

I suspect unzipping of the attachment within the Squeak image corrupts the stream. I think you can verify this if you check the attachment on the file system. If that contains a corrupted attachement then I think we can say that BFAV corrupted the attachment. If BFAV saved the attachment on disk uncorrupted, but displays corrupted attachements in, say, a DecentReviewerNotePad, then I'd suspect the m17n stuff of corrupting the stream. That might well happen simply because BFAV doesn't set the right encoder  - if I remember the m17n discussion correctly the default encoder uses UTF-8 but you can set it to something with a 1-1 mapping (like Latin1).

frank


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