Hooray - Ian Piumarta (praise him) has already done the major (if not all)
bit of work. Commits at 3-4 months ago in unix branch actually implement the
sixth field in event buffer - the ucs4 field.  One has only to utilize it in
corresponding InputInterpreter (and it will be even portable accross
platforms in simple cases and one doesn't care about older images/VMs)

I just needed to check the svn first (and yes, the unix-vm is maintaned - I
take back all my rambling)

:) :) :)



so a chance that UTF-8 is finally ND
> > completely adopted in Squeak is a bit bigger :) And I propose that a
> > patch should be done (complete and well tested) regardless of adoption,
> > which will come sooner or later.
>
>
>
> right, but who does it?
>



Such patch will probably break some existing code, but because UTF-8
> > solve a problem once for ever, I think the existing code should be
> > adapted by its authors to UTF-8.
>
>
>
> Andreas Raab did already it for the windows vm and the world is still
> going round...
>
> Regards.
>
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