[squeak-dev] UTF-8

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Sun Mar 29 08:17:48 UTC 2009


Philippe Marschall pravi:
> Michael Rueger:
>> Pierre-Edouard PORTIER wrote:

>>> But I would like to be able to *see* utf-8 characters inside the squeak
>>> environment.

>> Are you sure you are not confusing "utf-8" with "unicode"? utf-8 is
>> just one way of encoding unicode (characters).
>> You can import utf-8 encoded characters/strings, but once inside
>> Squeak they are kept as unicode characters.

> Plus leadingChar, which causes a lot of problems for web applications.

We don't have any problems with Squeak Unicode in Aida/Web apps,
probably because we strictly use Unicode internally, not the UTF-8
encoded strings. All such strings are then encoded/decoded to the UTF-8
"at the edge" of image by Aida web framework.

Best regards
Janko

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Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si



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