--- a/GraphicsContext.st	Tue Apr 12 16:18:31 2016 +0200
+++ b/GraphicsContext.st	Tue Apr 12 16:18:42 2016 +0200
@@ -723,10 +723,7 @@
 
 characterEncoding
     "returns a symbol describing how the contents is encoded internally.
-     For now, this should be the same encoding as my fonts encoding (otherwise, mappings would
-     occur when drawing).
-     This is (currently) only passed down from the fileBrowser,
-     and required when japanese/chinese/korean text is edited.
+     This is now obsolete, as we are always using unicode internally.
      (encoding is something like #'iso8859-5' #euc, #sjis, #jis7, #gb, #big5 or #ksc)"
 
     ^ characterEncoding
@@ -738,7 +735,8 @@
      unicode (of which iso8859-1 is a subset) encoding.
      The possibility to change the characterEncoding is provided as
      a backward compatibility hook for programs which want to use
-     another encoding internally. One such view is the CharacterSetView,
+     another encoding internally. 
+     One such view is the CharacterSetView,
      which wants to show character as they are actually present in a font."
 
     |encodingSymOrNil|
@@ -2475,6 +2473,8 @@
     joinStyle := #miter.
     capStyle := #butt.
     font := self class defaultFont.
+
+    "/ this is rubbish. we are now always using unicode internaly
     characterEncoding := #'iso10646-1'. "/ aka unicode
 ! !