Re: [Help-smalltalk] Iliad: problem with UTF-8 in text: what the heck?????

[Paolo Bonzini]

> hmm... just now Paolo's reply popped up. Might be an opportunity
> to ask what gst input should be encoded as? Are strings "just byte
> arrays" or do we have encoders and a canonical internal representation?

Strings should match whatever the LC_* environment variables say.  If 
you manually use EncodedStream and methods such as 
#asString:/#asUnicodeString: you can use strings in whatever encoding 
you want.

> Anyways, the à is a dead giveaway, as it's the ISO-8859-1 representation
> of one of the multibyte markers in UTF-8. So it could be two things:
> - your browser uses ISO-8859 encoding when it should be using UTF-8
> - your input was UTF-8 encoded but got parsed as ISO-8859

Indeed.

Paolo