[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
> 
> http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
> 
> 4.1.0b1 has a number of changes that impact users of older images and
> 
> non-pharo users. As you know the different VMs have been moving
> 
> towards supplying file/directory information and providing clipboard
> 
> support for UTF-8.  So today is the day to move forward by making
> 
> UTF-8 the default, rather than optional.
> 
> (a) I have altered the Info.plist to say file/directory names are
> 
> UTF-8.  If your image does not contain fixes for  the file browser, or
> 
> having MC being UTF-8 aware then you will have issues with file names
> 
> that contain accented characters.  These can be files in the same
> 
> directory as the file you are interested in since the squeak file
> 
> directory logic iterates over the directory contents for some
> 
> operations.
> 
> (b) The clipboard changes from macroman to UTF8, again you may require
> 
> fixes in order to successfully copy/paste accented characters to/from
> 
> the application.
> 
> 
> (c) The UTF8 for the clipboard required linking the powerpc binary
> 
> with Apple's 10.4 SDK versus 10.3. I have not tested if the VM will
> 
> run and have clipboard support on 10.2 or 10.3 systems.  If you rely
> 
> on a 10.2 or 10.3 system you should confirm if it works, or if it
> 
> fails.  If someone can confirm if there is a problem I will look into
> 
> providing a workaround.
> 
> 
> **********I note in Pharo copying "Caño del día" from the Finder to a
> 
> method didn't really work the way I thought it would, however it
> 
> didn't throw a UTF-8 input error.  Likely someone on the Pharo team
> 
> should do some cross checking for me *******






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