Re: Writing file with accented chars as the decimal 131?

hello Karsten,

 I was sending withEncoding: too late....
Just for info, from what I have seen, on OSX Apple Silicon the standard
writeStream seems to be #binary, not  #default.

thanks a lot

ciao

giorgio

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 4:44 PM Karsten Kusche <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Giorgio,
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> when creating streams on files, always use the #withEncoding: constructor.
> It works with all kinds of encodings, specifically in your case #utf8. It
> even supports #binary as encoding, even though that’s no real encoding, but
> it makes it crystal clear what you can expect.
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> If you don’t use #withEncoding: then the encoding is always #default. This
> is a platform specific encoding that’s ms_cp_1252 in western Europe on
> Windows. On macOS and Linux it’s #utf8.
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> To use it simple send #withEncoding: to your filename, before sending a
> stream-construction message like #readStream or #writeStream:
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> (‘test’ asFilename withEncoding: #utf8) readStream
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> Kind Regards
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> Karsten
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> *Von:* [email protected] <
> [email protected]> *Im Auftrag von *giorgio ferraris
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2023 16:40
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> *Betreff:* [vwnc] Writing file with accented chars as the decimal 131?
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> Hello,
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> do you know how to write a file when the string includes
> accented characters,  quite common in European countries?
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> I get an "illegal character error "
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> I suppose using utf8 would do the trick but I didn't find how to do that.
> Missed the right place on the docs?
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> thanks a lot for suggestions
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> giorgio
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