Re: [Help-smalltalk] [Pharo-project] Fun with Pharo generated source.st

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 05/05/2013 12:06, Frank Shearar ha scritto:
> On 5 May 2013 09:54, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Il 04/05/2013 18:51, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to convert/import all of Iliad (since the development had
>>> moved to Pharo) and I stumble up-on an issue I already had when I tried
>>> to convert Aida.
>>>
>>> This[1] monticello file in line 6417 starts to use UCS-4 for a string
>>> and then stops at some characters later.  Importing the file using
>>> FileStream is failing in Pharo as well.
>>
>> And how does monticello file it in then?!?  I'm adding the Pharo list.
> 
> Monticello doesn't use the snapshot. The snapshot's stored in addition
> to the "real" MC stuff, containing the changes that the mcz defines.
> 
> It's sorta-kinda like the difference between your working copy and git
> diff HEAD HEAD^. MC uses the latter, the snapshot is the former.

But it's still a Pharo bug that the snapshot makes no sense, right?

For GNU Smalltalk we can simply interpret a NUL as the first byte of an
UTF-32BE character, and convert it to UTF-8.  It's really ugly, but with
a suitable comment it can work.

Paolo