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> > And if it's in the image you get to do the programming in Smalltalk rather
> > than C or Slang, which is more fun for most of us. And, let's face it, fun
> > is an important metric in an open-source project -- things that are fun are
> > much more likely to get
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:02 AM Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
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> > On 17 Jan 2019, at 02:00, Martin McClure wrote:
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> > On 1/16/19 1:24 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> >> IMO, windows VM (and plugins) should do the UCS2 -> UTF8 conversion
> because the purpose of a VM is to provide an OS
> On 17 Jan 2019, at 02:00, Martin McClure wrote:
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> On 1/16/19 1:24 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>> IMO, windows VM (and plugins) should do the UCS2 -> UTF8 conversion because
>> the purpose of a VM is to provide an OS independant façade.
>
> I have not looked at this particular problem in
To be clear, I do not militate for putting everything in the VM. I prefer a
lean VM.
I'm cleaning what already exist in the VM.
If something is in the VM, then it should behave as we expect from a VM:
uniformely.
A small fix in existing code base is more efficient than a full rewrite.
But if a
On 1/16/19 1:24 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
IMO, windows VM (and plugins) should do the UCS2 -> UTF8 conversion
because the purpose of a VM is to provide an OS independant façade.
I have not looked at this particular problem in detail, so I have no
opinion on whether the VM is the right place
