[Glass] UTF8 character encoding translation between Pharo and Gemstone

[Philippe Marschall]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Dale K. Henrichs
<dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> I am curious how the Unicode strings are being encoded on the Pharo side? You are transferring the strings from Pharo to GemStone correct?
>
> I'm not sure what Pharo does with the WideStrings when creating the STON output, but it sounds wrong to be getting DoubleByeStrings from Pharo ...

Without knowing the details of the STON implementation I would say the
same. I would expect utf-8 decoding on a byte array or single byte
string, not a double byte string.

Cheers
Philippe