Regarding the problems I have with my firstname and file paths and utf-8 encoding, I found something weird in the UTF-8 encoding. In fact, to be more precise, I found something strange when converting a String to a ByteArray (which UTF-8 encoders convert from) If I look at the example in the comment of ByteArray>>utf8Decoded, 'Les élèves français' is encoded as: #[76 101 115 32 195 169 108 195 168 118 101 115 32 102 114 97 110 195 167 97 105 115] NOW, if I take that very same string, 'Les élèves français' , and convert it to a ByteArray, I get : 'Les élèves français' asByteArray printString. #[76 101 115 32 233 108 232 118 101 115 32 102 114 97 110 231 97 105 115] The 2 don't match! By the way, this problem exists on Pharo 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 (on Windows 10 ) Can anyone confirm/infirm on another platform to see if this is Windows-specific? ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein)