Text on 0.9.0 release

I had some trouble last week when I has to compile an app I made in OSX for Windows with the utf8 parsing thing. This was in spanish so I had to use áéíóú ñ. Osx and windows gave different results while reading the same text file. I was using the current HEAD. The thing is that this same app, which I wrote like 3 years ago, used to work well both on windows and macosx, but all this new utf8 features wrecked the whole thing and I had to spend a lot of time in something that was just a minor fix. From now on, text must be handled in a different way? How is it going to be?
best!