Andreas Raab wrote:
> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> Is there some Windows VM parameter to get 8 bit clipboard data?
>
> Starting with the 3.10 series the Windows VMs use UTF-8 exclusively 
> and consistently in its entire interface. All strings passed into or 
> out of the Windows VM use UTF-8. This is true for clipboard as well as 
> files, directories  etc.
>
>> But on Windows I get 2 bytes, 195 and 161, and these non-unicode 
>> images get confused.
>
> If you want to use non-ascii characters you will need an encoder and a 
> decoder for the range of characters your image supports. You can start 
> from here:
>
>   http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7314
>
> This has a *very* fast conversion to and from UTF-8 encoded 
> representations for strings and the only thing you need to change is 
> to restrict the incoming unicode value in utf8ToSqueak to whatever 
> range of characters you support.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
Thank you Andreas! This is exactly what I needed.

I have ready the changeset for supporting Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1). I'll 
publish a new release this weekend.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich