Luke,
Can you sketch how to import unicode text into Squeak? Should it be OK to copy&paste from e.g. Firefox on OSX or Windows?
With little support, you can definitely "import" text into Squeak via clipboard, file IO, or keyboard input.
However, displaying the text is another story. I did an experiment with Pango to render text from Squeak and it works somewhat... But it is yet to be tested more (and I always missed the chance to push it because we are always in the middle of preparing stuff for the next deadline and making it unstable feels so evil).
The text renderer currently we are using is written in Squeak. The theory is that everybody can modify it, but so far nobody tried to add complex script shaping handling. Relying on an external library like Pango is the second best and realistic solution.
-- Yoshiki