Maybe http://book.seaside.st/book/in-action/serving-files/character-encodings helps?
Lukas On 27 August 2010 00:34, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu> wrote: > I have written a fair amount of code to exchange ascii data with something > that, all too recently, I discovered has a binary capability that is > potentially very useful to me. My question is how to get out of this mess :) > I create write streams on strings and write characters and strings to them > and send the contents to the system. How different are strings and byte > arrays? I recall seeing stringOrByteArray in a few places (some of that code > is my own, written in Dolphin and carefully structured to note the underlying > string, etc.). Is there anything I should keep in mind to make the > transition less painful? > > Can I keep the strings and simply add binary with #asString, or change it all > to byte arrays and get away with a similar trick? Can a binary or text > stream change "personality" on the fly? I suspect that there are many hard > ways out of this and probably only one or two smart ways. > > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Lukas Renggli www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
