On Thursday 16 April 2009 8:51:17 am Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> But then I realised that Smalltalk code and comments are usually
> written in English.
You mean ASCII or Latin-1?

> Unicode is optional until you want to write 
> applications for non-English speaking people or want to comment your
> code in another language.
Or you want to deal with text flowing in from other software either on the 
same machine or a network. Every other programming environment has moved to 
UTF-8 for text interchange to deal with the flat world.

Perhaps you missed out a smiley?

Subbu