[Glass] case insensitive search broken for Unicode7?

[Dale Henrichs]

Gerhard,

Well, those two expressions are still failing in 3.2 so I'll submit a bug
and it should be fixed when 3.2 is released ... "real soon now".

Thanks!

Dale


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Gerhard Obermann <obi068 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This should work at least:
>
> (Unicode7 withAll: String new) includesString: 'abc'
> (Unicode7 withAll: '') includesString: 'abc'
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Dale Henrichs <
> dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Mariano,
>>
>> In the shower, after writing the above message, I realized that I am not
>> an expert in the specific area where you are having problems ... the
>> revamping that I was referring occurred in the area related to mixed
>> comparison of Strings and Unicode and not specifically in the area of "case
>> insensitive search", although I'm pretty sure that we've done extensive
>> work in other areas of unicide support ...
>>
>> I am still buried so I don't really have the time to research this area,
>> but if you supply me with some test cases I can run them against 3.2 and
>> determine whether we've addressed your problems in 3.2 ...
>>
>> I'm from the land of "it doesn't work until I see it work" so your test
>> cases are important in case they happen to fall into the cracks in the
>> implementation... also it's possible that the GLASS layer is getting in the
>> way as well (as I said, I do not have the time to actually look into this)
>> ...
>>
>> If you give me test cases, I will run them against 3.2 and let you know
>> what I find out ...
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Dale Henrichs <
>> dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mariano,
>>>
>>> I'm afraid that there is no simple answer ...for 3.2 we ended up making
>>> pretty significant changes at both the primitive level and the Smalltalk
>>> level and the things we did (mainly at the primitive level ... as Marten
>>> has observed) to solve the problem are not easily backported to 3.1.x.
>>>
>>> It's looking like we will be releasing 3.2 "real soon now" so you might
>>> not have to wait long for relief.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>>> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>>>> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone confirm a workaround that works from the deepest point so
>>>>> that nothing is broken? Because I am finding new problems which seem
>>>>> related...so if we can find a workaround from the seed of the problem we
>>>>> likely fix all.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
>>>>> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks James.
>>>>>> The side effects of this issue is huge, isn't it? I have been
>>>>>> debugging issues and problems related to this. Because it's not only
>>>>>> #matches: but #includesSubstring:caseSensitive: (when send with false) and
>>>>>> many more. I should stop my production system because some load of data etc
>>>>>> depends in this type of message and does X or Y depending on the answer of
>>>>>> such a message :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:25 PM, James Foster <
>>>>>> james.foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:51 PM, James Foster <
>>>>>>> james.foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM, James Foster <
>>>>>>>> james.foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I added 'asUppercase' to both the receiver and the argument in my
>>>>>>>>> code (with a note to remove it later).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But the problem is that lots of methods will be broken....because
>>>>>>>> it is all senders of all senders of all senders.. of _findString: subString
>>>>>>>> startingAt: startIndex ignoreCase: aBoolean  of Unicode7.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What about this instead:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unicode7 >> _findString: subString startingAt: startIndex
>>>>>>>> ignoreCase: aBoolean
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   ^ super _findString: subString startingAt: startIndex ignoreCase:
>>>>>>>> aBoolean
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am not aware of any suggested changes to the base classes to fix
>>>>>>>> this but I've indicated on the internal bug tracking system that publishing
>>>>>>>> a workaround would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks James. Indeed, a workaround is deeply appreciated. Please let
>>>>>>> me know if someone pushes one in the bug tacker. Is it public? Because I
>>>>>>> don't see anything in
>>>>>>> http://gemtalksystems.com/index.php/community/gss-support/resources/bug-notes/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That is where the bug-note would appear when/if it is written.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> James
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mariano
>>>>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mariano
>>>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mariano
>>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>>>>
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