Andreas Raab wrote:
> I agree that we shouldn't pick UTF-8 as the exclusive interface for the VM -
> we need the VM to report to us what it expects. Partly because for some uses
> of Squeak we may want to use a Unicode subset, or maybe don't use the wide
> characters at all (for example, for cell phones shipped in the US ;) So the
> VM should report what it expects, and the image should deal with whatever it
> gets. That makes it easy to deal flexibly with situations where the VM
> otherwise would have to guess what exactly to do.

Ideally yes. But UTF-8 is the closest thing to the current situation.
The US cell phone argument even reinforces this. The phone deals with
ASCII only. An UTF-8 VM has no problem with this.

Hannes