Edgar,

>     aStream converter: Latin1TextConverter new. "this fixes the problem for
> me."

  Is it really about the file out of Squeak code, or are you just
taking it as an example?

  If it is the former, this line can't be a fix for any real problems.
You would have wanted to import the created fileout to some other
application, but if it doesn't support UTF-8 with byte order mark or
MacRoman, that is the problem with it, not Squeak's.

  Squeak's file out should be in UTF-8 with byte order mark or
MacRoman (latter is only supported for backward compatibility).  Even
before 3.8, Latin1 had never been an accepted encoding.

  In short, don't do it.  Treat the file out as a binary file, if you
don't want to mess it up.

-- Yoshiki