[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak mac carbon VM 4.1.0b1 goes out.
Esteban Lorenzano
estebanlm at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 11:44:33 UTC 2009
Great news, John!
Btw, "Caño del día" can be interpreted in spanish in a very funny (and
yonky) way ;)
Cheers,
Esteban
On 2009-04-21 18:25:57 -0300, John M McIntosh
<johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> said:
> I've placed it in the usual places via
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> http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
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> 4.1.0b1 has a number of changes that impact users of older images and
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> non-pharo users. As you know the different VMs have been moving
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> towards supplying file/directory information and providing clipboard
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> support for UTF-8. So today is the day to move forward by making
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> UTF-8 the default, rather than optional.
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> (a) I have altered the Info.plist to say file/directory names are
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> UTF-8. If your image does not contain fixes for the file browser, or
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> having MC being UTF-8 aware then you will have issues with file names
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> that contain accented characters. These can be files in the same
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> directory as the file you are interested in since the squeak file
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> directory logic iterates over the directory contents for some
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> operations.
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> (b) The clipboard changes from macroman to UTF8, again you may require
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> fixes in order to successfully copy/paste accented characters to/from
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> the application.
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>
> (c) The UTF8 for the clipboard required linking the powerpc binary
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> with Apple's 10.4 SDK versus 10.3. I have not tested if the VM will
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> run and have clipboard support on 10.2 or 10.3 systems. If you rely
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> on a 10.2 or 10.3 system you should confirm if it works, or if it
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> fails. If someone can confirm if there is a problem I will look into
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> providing a workaround.
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>
> **********I note in Pharo copying "Caño del día" from the Finder to a
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> method didn't really work the way I thought it would, however it
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> didn't throw a UTF-8 input error. Likely someone on the Pharo team
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> should do some cross checking for me *******
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