Writing Unicode UTF-8 file

thomas....@natural-software.eu

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Jul 21, 2026, 2:56:49 PMJul 21

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Hello

I need to write a UTF-8 file in Windows (with german Umlaute, etc.)

What is the recommended way to write a Unicode String with CfsWriteFileString?

Feels like a stupid question...

--Thomas

Adriaan van Os

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Jul 21, 2026, 5:32:35 PMJul 21

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Hi Thomas,

You might have a look at https://groups.google.com/g/va-smalltalk/c/MotMHKeKbxU/m/ZRieopB0BAAJ

Cheers,

Adriaan

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thomas....@natural-software.eu

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Jul 25, 2026, 9:55:26 AM (13 days ago) Jul 25

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Geez....

Thought this might be simple and straight forward and I am missing something. Ok - have to work on my use case as I do not need 100% UTF-8 with Emojis, etc. just to transfer some XML files between systems (ST and Non-ST)

Johan Brichau

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Jul 25, 2026, 11:08:18 AM (13 days ago) Jul 25

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Hi Thomas,

The discussion Adriaan pointed concerns a broader topic, which is useful but simply writing a UTF-8 for a UnicodeString to a filestream is not difficult, as also outlined by Adriaan in that same thread:

fileStream nextPutAll: aUnicodeString asUtf8Bytes

Does that work for you?

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