[Cuis-dev] Using OSProcess package

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Dave,

On 12/18/2022 8:47 PM, David T. Lewis via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 11:07:47AM -0500, David T. Lewis via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi Juan,
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:42:34AM -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2022 12:57 PM, David T. Lewis via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> Thanks Juan. If anyone sees problems with Unicode strings in OSProcess,
>>>> please mention it here on the list. My understanding of Unicode is
>>>> not good, so if there are problems with string handling I may not
>>>> see or understand the issues without some help.
>>>>
>>> Well, I can annoy you a bit with Unicode stuff :) !
>>>
>>> All what follows I tried on my Intel Mac, using OpenSmalltalk Cog from
>>> 2022-11-21. I'm using a fresh, updated Cuis with the current OSProcess.
>>> I believe results would be similar on Linux and Windows, and I can try
>>> if you find it useful. I also believe result would be similar in Squeak.
>>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to explain this. I am looking at
>> both the VM plugin and the OSProcess package, and I think it will
>> be possible to handle UTF8 properly without VM changes. More to
>> follow later, I just want to let you know I'm not ignoring this :-)
>>
> I just pushed another update to OSProcess for Cuis. I think that it
> will address most concerns related to calling VM plugin primitives
> with UTF8 strings.
>
> The OSProcessPlugin was written with the expection that string
> parameters would be simple byte strings, but they work equally
> well if byte arrays are used instead of the byte strings. Thus
> when I changed the primitive calls in the image (OSProcess) to
> convert strings to ByteArray, we now get the expected results.
>
> I expect that other things will need to be addressed in OSProcess
> for Unicode, but this should at least be a good start.
>
> Dave
>

This works nicely. Thanks a bunch!

Cheers,

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