On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Command line arguments enter the image level via VirtualMachine>>#getSystemAttribute:

At that point they are already Strings.

ByteString, according to the primitive. So if the shell supplies e.g. UTF-8 strings for command-line parameters, which the VM sees as bytes, then the ByteString instances answered by getSystemAttribute: would need decoding, right?

In your case, they must already be wrong at that point.

Not necessarily. The getSystemAttribute: primitive doesn't do decoding. Perhaps it should.

> On 20 Jan 2015, at 16:51, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote:
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> Le 20/01/2015 16:34, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :
>> No they are not - Strings and Characters in Pharo are using plain Unicode encoding internally.
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> Thanks for the update, and the reference link.
>
> Hilaire
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best,

Eliot