Hi Bèrto -

This looks like a bug in the UTF-8 conversion that the VM does. I'll 
check it. As a workaround, you can try an earlier VM to see if this helps.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a weird thing happening. I downloaded the latest squeak and when 
> it opens it immediately delivers this error. Okay, so I open and close 
> the emergency evaluator then I can work. But as soon as I try to save an 
> updated image... here we go again. So no saving, which is obviously bad.
> 
> Running on
> XP pro 2002 version, SP2 (russian edition)
> Squeak 3.10.2
> 
> It looks like the problem is connected to my filesystem strings.
> In secureUserDirectory
> dir := self primSecureUserDirectory.
> 
> generates a string in the form path+username which results in trouble: 
> 'C:\Program Files\Squeak\Áýðòó'. My username on the system is in 
> cyrillic, and this really looks like it.
> 
> Then in convertFromWithConverter (ByteString) the exception is raised.
> 
> I've been googling a bit about this, but I cannot seem to find much. Any 
> hint at what we should do? It does look like a problem that is going to 
> occur over and over again, and since the app I'm about to write deals 
> with languages and thousands of different scripts... This is a bit worrying.
> 
> Let me know.
> Bèrto
> 
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