I'd like to summarize some things + 1 to all that sven said.
Taking a look at users of old text converters, there are only 77 of them: (TextConverter withAllSubclasses gather: [ :each | SystemNavigation new allReferencesTo: each binding ]) size " => 77" That is maybe a good starting point. And it will step by step remove the leading char magic. The only point where I see a problem is in the feature "convert magically cr's to some line ending convention" that is managed by a mixture between the text converter and the file stream. I would not like to push this "feature" to the zinc encoders. Actually I don't believe it belongs to the file reading neither. Guille El jue., 30 de abr. de 2015 a la(s) 11:46 a. m., Norbert Hartl < norb...@hartl.name> escribió: > If yours is better there shouldn't be much of a reason to keep the bad > one, right? I'd just suggest that pharo does not depend on zinc classes but > the encoder moves to pharo with a different name. > > Norbert > > > Am 30.04.2015 um 11:42 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>: > > > > > >> On 30 Apr 2015, at 11:13, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'm struggling with the TextConverter's API in Pharo :). > >> > >> I wanted to test the converters in Pharo, and I found the method > #convertFromSystemString: that should (from its name) convert a Pharo > String into an encoded version of it. > >> > >> (UTF8TextConverter default convertFromSystemString: 'á'). > >> > >> Funny thing, it does not do that. It does the opposite: it tries to > convert an encoded string to a pharo string. And so it fails. Of course, > its symmetrical version does what I want and behaves as the ZnUTF8Encoder :) > >> > >> (UTF8TextConverter default convertToSystemString: 'á') asByteArray > >> "#[195 161]" > >> > >> ZnUTF8Encoder new encodeString: 'á' "#[195 161]" > >> > >> Question: > >> - does the convertTo/From methods makes sense to you or It's just me > that sees them inverted? > >> - does it make sense to have the two versions of converters? Zn and the > TextConverters do the same in my opinion (or maybe I'm confused :) ) > >> > >> Guille > > > > I am biased, but the Zn converters are better. Why ? Because they work > between String <-> Bytes as a text encoder/decoder should. They also have a > number of extra features (counting the number of encoded bytes, being able > to move backwards on input, being able to be very strict), are faster and > have a clearer implementation. Furthermore, they are more correct and > implement more encodings. > > > > There is also good documentation > http://stfx.eu/EnterprisePharo/Zinc-Encoding-Meta/ > > > > ZnCharacter[Read|Write]Stream are also very instructive, compare them to > MultiByteStream. > > > > Should we throw the other one out ? Probably. But it is the same > problems as with Xtreams: the API is different and adding a compatibility > layer would defeat the purpose. So I don't know. > > > > Sven > > > > > > > > >
