On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:09 30AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Hello all,
I got an error (on Ubuntu 9.10) trying open an old text file that I created on Windows some time ago. The encoding (if gedit's save-as dialog can be trusted??) is Western ISO-8859-15; resaving as utf8 lets me read it.
So, is Pharo working by design? Did I do the correct/only thing needed to read the file? What should I be asking? Is there anything I can do to turn this into a useful test/debugging example?
Bill
This is not an error per se, seeing as the encoding is not utf8 :) If the import was done from some tool instead of in your code (in which case you'd set the encoding of the file stream), a nicer *behavior* might be for the UI Manager to catch encoding errors when trying to read a file, and offer up a dialogue with a list of encodings which the file *can* be read as, along with a preview window of what the text would look like with the selected encoding, like some word processors do. Cheers, Henry