Il 05/05/2013 12:06, Frank Shearar ha scritto: > On 5 May 2013 09:54, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> 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
