John M McIntosh wrote:
> I've placed it in the usual places via
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> http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
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> 4.1.0b1 has a number of changes that impact users of older images and  
> non-pharo users. As you know the different VMs have been moving  
> towards supplying file/directory information and providing clipboard  
> support for UTF-8.  So today is the day to move forward by making  
> UTF-8 the default, rather than optional.

That is wonderful news! One step closer to a consistent cross-platform 
Unicode interface for Squeak. Does anyone know how the Unix VM is doing 
in this area? Do we now have all the main platforms use UTF-8 for files, 
directories, clipboard, and input?

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> (a) I have altered the Info.plist to say file/directory names are  
> UTF-8.  If your image does not contain fixes for  the file browser, or  
> having MC being UTF-8 aware then you will have issues with file names  
> that contain accented characters.  These can be files in the same  
> directory as the file you are interested in since the squeak file  
> directory logic iterates over the directory contents for some  
> operations.
> 
> (b) The clipboard changes from macroman to UTF8, again you may require  
> fixes in order to successfully copy/paste accented characters to/from  
> the application.
> 
> 
> (c) The UTF8 for the clipboard required linking the powerpc binary  
> with Apple's 10.4 SDK versus 10.3. I have not tested if the VM will  
> run and have clipboard support on 10.2 or 10.3 systems.  If you rely  
> on a 10.2 or 10.3 system you should confirm if it works, or if it  
> fails.  If someone can confirm if there is a problem I will look into  
> providing a workaround.
> 
> 
> **********I note in Pharo copying "Caño del día" from the Finder to a  
> method didn't really work the way I thought it would, however it  
> didn't throw a UTF-8 input error.  Likely someone on the Pharo team  
> should do some cross checking for me *******
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