New Win32 VM [m17n testers needed]
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Jun 4 10:58:11 UTC 2007
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:49 , subbukk wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 12:08 am, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> "Windows VMs always use UTF8-encoded file names now"
>> Smalltalk platformName = 'Win32'
>> ifTrue:[^UTF8TextConverter new].
> Andreas,
>
> The conditional is incorrect and unnecessary. filename encoding
> depends on
> filesystem, not the VM platform. For instance, I could have a UTF-8
> file on a
> USB flash and use it across different VMs.
>
> AFAIK, FAT fs does not support UTF-8. NTFS, HPFS (Mac) and all
> current Linux
> filesystems support UTF-8 in filenames.
Wrong. This solely defines what encoding is used to communicate
between the image and the VM. The VM then translates this to whatever
encoding the file system uses.
- Bert -
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