--- a/AbstractOperatingSystem.st	Wed Oct 12 15:59:35 2016 +0200
+++ b/AbstractOperatingSystem.st	Wed Oct 12 16:15:14 2016 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-"{ Encoding: utf8 }"
-
 "
  COPYRIGHT (c) 1988 by Claus Gittinger
 	      All Rights Reserved
@@ -5117,9 +5115,12 @@
 
 decodePathOrCommandOutput:encodedPathNameOrOutputLine
     "decode the encodedPathNameOrOutputLine as returned by system calls or output by system commands.
+     This takes care for any specific OS encodings or specific command encodings.
+
      E.g. linux system calls return single byte strings only,
      so pathNames have been UTF-8 encoded."
 
+    "/ fallback here: no encoding
     ^ encodedPathNameOrOutputLine
 !