Le 29/09/2014 19:15, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :
On 29 Sep 2014, at 19:10, Robert Shiplett <grshiplett@gmail.com> wrote:
Must be a thing about European "guys" ...
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- 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).
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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. :)