<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi Ignacio, Thanks for your feedback! <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 21/02/2023 à 13:25, Ignacio Sniechowski via Cuis-dev a écrit : </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAMCzT-Yw+MzBivD+Yecm+kxJCinAPbajjJ5-DaUHC32Th=6AYA@mail.gmail.com"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">"Note. We wrote earlier a string is a collection of characters. It is true for byte string, where each character is encoded with a byte – a byte string. However since 2023, the default string format for Cuis-Smalltalk is Unicode (UTF-8) where each character can be encoded with 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes. Therefore it is immutable and can not be indexed, it can be converted as byte string with the message #asByteString."</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">From here I understand that the first example should not work, unless -which is probably the case here- I'm misunderstanding the part "Therefore, it is immutable and can not be indexed, it can be converted..."</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> <div class="gmail-page" title="Page 27" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div class="gmail-layoutArea"> <div class="gmail-column"> 'Hello' at: 1 ⇒ $H 'Hello' asByteString at: 5 ⇒ $o </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> Yep, the sentence is not really accurate. Will it be better as "it is immutable and can not be indexed properly"? And a better example to expose it: 'sur' at: 3 $r 'sûr' at: 3 $^ (unicode code point value 770) Advice please, so I can update the book accordingly. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAMCzT-Yw+MzBivD+Yecm+kxJCinAPbajjJ5-DaUHC32Th=6AYA@mail.gmail.com"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The other question is related to shortcuts in SmalltalkEditor, I find the shortcut Cmd - " very useful for quoting results of chunks of code in the workspace. This works when the keyboard is in </div> </blockquote> Is your host a Mac, I guess so as mentioned Cmd. Could be an issue related to the VM. Om my Linux box with an us international keyboard, I can comment chunk of code with the keyboard combinaision Ctrl-Alt-Shift-["] (on my setup I have to do Alt-Shift to access directly the " character, otherwise it will try to compose with other character latter on. May be take a look at your VM options. Hilaire <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- GNU Dr. Geo <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drgeo.eu">http://drgeo.eu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.drgeo.eu">http://blog.drgeo.eu</a></pre> </body> </html>