I cant get myself to understand this, perhaps someone could show me
why this is not broken and bring some sense to my world? :)

    Transcript show: 'company3' asHtml; cr.

amusingly gives

    companý³

String, in class initialization, creates a html entity mapping

     entity ---> (n + 159) asCharacter asIsoToSqueak. 

and asHtml does a copy and replace of any character thats is the
mapping.

Which would be fine, except for the fact that Character>>asIsoToSqueak
doesnt appear to have a mapping for (94 + 159) asCharacter, therefore
falling back to returning 121.. now asHtml happily thinks the fallback
value "y" should be mapped to "y acute"

     121 asCharacter isoToSqueak = 253 asCharacter isoToSqueak

Same would happen with 1, 2, 3, and others..
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