Le 29/09/2014 19:15, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :
On 29 Sep 2014, at 19:10, Robert Shiplett <grshipl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Must be a thing about European "guys" ...
<quote>
- ByteString is needed for most european/occidental people who don't care about
internationalization and should stay because Pharo is an european/english based
system , also not to break existing code
(again will be transparent to most users for same reason).
</unquote>
Of all reasons to retain ByteString, let's hope this one is not listed, lest we
appear ridiculous in our threads.
Apart from being incorrect, it is indeed a totally wrong formulation which
furthermore gives a bad impression.
ByteString is simply an optimisation covering Strings where all characters use
the lower 256 Unicode code points.
Indeed, there is something about "europe" : the iso alphabet soup
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
which is/was a pain for years now (thank you unicode).
But you are right, this formulation is not good, yours is far better.
:)
