On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, tgc05 <thomas@costick.net> wrote:
Hi Mariano. Thanks for this. I'm new to Pharo and have been away from Smalltalk for several years (way too long), so right now I am not ready to start debugging the code; perhaps I will return to this when I have recovered my "Smalltalk legs" :) I had hoped someone more in touch with the Pharo project would be able to fix this.
Don't worry. I lack of time :( (and probably of knoweldege too)
Meanwhile, the point I want to emphasise is that this error shows up for anyone working through the Pharo By Example book. Right from the start, the book advises the reader to use a different image file from the quick start one provided with Pharo. Doing this, the reader will immediately run into the "Error:invalid utf8 input detected." problem.
This could be enough to put some people off the idea of learning Smalltalk, which I am sure we all want to avoid. Even if they persevere, the impression this gives if that either Pharo is a bit flakey or the PBE book is at fault, or the PBE.image file is bad. Or all of these!
As an aside, I would very much like to be able to contribute errata notices and suggestions for improved wording for the PBE book. I have ordered the hard-copy from Lulu.com and will markup any errors and clarifications as I progress through the book. Does anyone know if I can log errata etc online somewhere?
yes: "sbe@iam.unibe.ch Example" <sbe@iam.unibe.ch>, I have cc'ed them. https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/sbe-discussion you can find this in http://pharobyexample.org/ on the right where it says "Resources" and then "Discussion list" cheers mariano
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