Hi Mariano.  Thanks for this.  I'm new to Pharo and have been away from
Smalltalk for several years (way too long), so right now I am not ready to
start debugging the code; perhaps I will return to this when I have
recovered my "Smalltalk legs" :)   I had hoped someone more in touch with
the Pharo project would be able to fix this.

Meanwhile, the point I want to emphasise is that this error shows up for
anyone working through the Pharo By Example book.  Right from the start, the
book advises the reader to use a different image file from the quick start
one provided with Pharo.  Doing this, the reader will immediately run into
the "Error:invalid utf8 input detected." problem.

This could be enough to put some people off the idea of learning Smalltalk,
which I am sure we all want to avoid.  Even if they persevere, the
impression this gives if that either Pharo is a bit flakey or the PBE book
is at fault, or the PBE.image file is bad.  Or all of these!

As an aside, I would very much like to be able to contribute errata notices
and suggestions for improved wording for the PBE book.  I have ordered the
hard-copy from Lulu.com and will markup any errors and clarifications as I
progress through the book.  Does anyone know if I can log errata etc online
somewhere?

--Thomas.
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