No dialogs, please :) Actually, it would be fine if there were a different stream class or simply a different method/state (encoding =#userInteraction or something??) that is understood to negotiate such details with "the user." In general, exception is the correct way to handle this: the stream "knows" what is wrong; the application will know what to make of it. If the encoding can be detected automatically, that would be great. Firefox tells me that the encoding is ISO-8859-1; I am not leaving off the 5, Firefox and gedit report it differently. In fairness to gedit, I am reporting the encodings listed in its save-as dialog. Unfortunately the offending file contains specifications that are not mine. I have seen pieces of it published elsewhere (quite recently in fact) but will need to do some checking on the licensing. I might be able to excerpt the file and end up with the same behavior. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Henrik Johansen [henrik.s.johansen@veloxit.no] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 7:39 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Invalid utf8 input detected: now what? 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 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project