I meant that this:
'ä' squeakToUtf8 squeakToUtf8 asByteArray => #[195 131 194 164]
are the characters which are printed instead of 'ä' in the debug output.
I will look into this tomorrow again. I have not yet investigated the concrete trace to the ChangeList coming from the FileList (so far I have directly opened a ChangeList).
Well as feared it did not come through. Let me try this again: The string 'ä' would be 'Ã'
when interpreted as bytes which encode UTF-8. In turn 'Ã' as bytes encoding UTF-8 is 'ä' which
is what we actually want. The rest is as described below.