Aug. 30, 2010
1:07 p.m.
If you call (re)introducing #squeakToUtf8/#utf8ToSqueak instead of using convertTo/FromEncoding: 'utf8', then yes.
In Squeak these methods avoid the creation of the TextConverter object if the receiver is a ByteString, which is usually the case.
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?thanks=2885 Thanks