Hi Hans,

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 9:43:06 PM, you wrote:

BH> Don't know... I just want the simple plain kind of file that Squeak used to produce....
 
I think this has to do with the transition to UTF8 which is slower and
not understood everywhere.

You have to revert to StandardFileStream.

I just tried the following snippet from 3.8 in trunk:
| fileStream |
        fileStream := StandardFileStream 
                                forceNewFileNamed:  'addedItems.txt'.
        fileStream ascii.
        fileStream nextPutAll: 'gagaÄÖÜßöäü'.
        fileStream close

and could open it in an old, non UTF8 aware editor.
        
HTH,

Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net