International shoes, UTF-8, etc

[Niklas Frykholm]

Is there a secret to working with >7 bit characters in shoes? I tried this:
    $text = "Replace me"

    Shoes.app do
        def me
            stack do
                para $text
                e = edit_box
                button "ok" do $text = e.text; clear {me} end
            end
        end
        me
    end

Typing some umlauted characters into the box, your good old ä's and ö's 
and å's gives the error message

(shoes.exe:5672): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()

and missing characters in the para. It seems the para wants UTF-8, but 
the edit_box gives me ISO-LATIN-1.

// Niklas