http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=514 Ok, I put up some change sets, and a new extended clipboard bundle. I don't know if it will all load in a current image, but someone can figure this out for me. If it all loads then for example: In TextEdit enter: Caño del dÃa copy, now fire up the current Pharo WITHOUT the changes, paste. you will see: Can?o del di?a The problem is that the current clipboard logic does not do UTF8 normalization. The new logic and plugin does. fire up the current Pharo WITH the changesets and plugin paste you will see Caño del dÃa Now Graphics. execute Clipboard default addClipboardDataFromForm: (Form fromDisplay: (Display boundingBox)). now go to Apple's Preview application and do New From Clipboard ? In Apple's Preview open a favourite image copy now back to Pharo and inspect Clipboard default readTIFFClipboardData that should return a form, executing this should display it. Clipboard default readTIFFClipboardData displayOn: Display -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================