On 28.02.2012, at 03:58, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

> 
> David T. Lewis wrote
>> 
>> I have a hunch that if you were
>> to convert your multi-byte input string into a byte array, thence back
>> to a string of 8-bit characters
> 
> I tried aWideString asByteArray asString (as well as some other
> experiments), which did not work. Is that what you meant?


Err, no. You need to encode it. Try squeakToUtf8. This converts from a WideString to a ByteString using UTF8 encoding.

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