Hello Juan,

> Why would some characters be silently messed by the system?

Precisely because Squeak is an object system. If a string is
supposed to have cr as line separator, you do not want to
allow crlf or lf separated strings to enter the system.
Garbage needs to stay outside.

> But the base system should do none by default.

That doesn't create an acceptable user experience for those
of us using crlf or lf separated strings and is therefore
not acceptable for a multi-platform system.

Stephan Eggermont