>From what I have seen pharo on stackoverflow has becoming less and less active when we created the Slack channel. Also this mailing list helps a lot.
I used to be a supporter of stackoverflow but I have to agree with others, its moderation is beyond stupid. I also found some tricks to make managing the mailing list easier, I created filters in my gmail account to gather anything concering pharo and put it in one place and I use Thunderbird to make the experience smoother. Mailing list and Slack is all we need. On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:23 AM stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > Hello Milan > > > > Re: Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression.eml > > Sujet : > > Re: Pharo 5 accented chars bug/regression > > De : > Milan Vavra <vavra_mi...@yahoo.com> <vavra_mi...@yahoo.com> > > Date : > 12/6/16 21:50 > > Pour : > pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > > > I have debugged the issue and figured out how to fix it. I have seen > it as an opportunity to learn Pharo debugging and I did learn a few > tricks on the way. It took me 2 full days of debugging. > > > Thanks for your time. > This is important because most of us are not fluent with encodings, > especially me :) > > > It is a simple fix that works for all the Pharo versions on Windows > that have this problem. Including Pharo 6 without Nicolai's fix applied. > And it does not break any shortcuts as far as I can tell. > > > Super! > > > I was so proud of myself. > > You can! > Could you sign the license agreement > > http://pharo.org/contribute > > > > I thought I deserved some recognition. And I > still do. It is not that someone else could not do it. I am sure that > many people would be able to do that as well. But I did take the time > to do it. And it worked. I kind of would have liked to be able to point > to it and say "I fixed that". > > > I know that feeling :) and this is great that you could do it. > > > > I thought stackoverflow.com might be a good place for that. I was > wrong. Having had my stackoverflow.com post attacked by aggressive > incompetent anonymous down voters who were interested in down voting but > possess no sense of humor or knowledge of Pharo or Smalltalk I think > I understand now that stackoverflow.com is overrated. > > You are the not the first one to get such bad experience. I do not > understand why people are > that stupid. > > I don't think a site that actively encourages that kind of behavior deserves > to benefit > from my fix in any way. I would need a whole bunch of sympathizers to > overturn the downvoting. I am not sure it is worth anybody's time. > > I understand now that mailing lists have several good qualities > thatstackoverflow.com does not have: posts can not disappear. People can not > anonymously make you look bad even if they are incompetent in the subject > matter. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm ok with being told that I'm ugly or stupid > if I understand what it is that is disliked. > > > We are not like that. Pharo is our systems and people are here to improve > it. > Open a bug entry on fogbugz and people will comment positively. > > http://pharo.org/contribute > > But I do not like places > where anonymous bullying is actively encouraged. Hey I even got a 'Peer > Pressure' badge for deleting my down voted post. > > This is why we do not really like people having strong opinion while being > anonymous. > You can have a strong feeling but not bashing for bashing. > > So much for context. > > > I understand that Nicolai is working on a fix of his own. The preliminary > version for future Pharo 6.0 shows promise. With it, it is possible to > type all the russian characters. Even with the fix it is not possible > to type the Latin 'č' but I guess that can be fixed too. > > Back to business: > > Is there anyone out there using Pharo 3, 4, 5 or 6 on Windows that would > benefit now from being able to type the characters č, Č, ě or Russian Ё, > Л, М, Н, О, П in Workspace/Playground and System Browser? > > > It would be nice for Pharo 5. Since it will be the official version for > about more than a year. > > > > I guess I would like to know how to get this fixed with my fix and get > some visibility in the process. If there is any interest. > > > Milan > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-5-accented-chars-bug-regression-tp4898863p4900559.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > >
