At Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:19:49 -0700,
Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> >   One question is the roadmap; I would think ByteStrings will be
> > retained for a while (or forever) but may be also phased out.  And
> > also it would be nice to tag ByteStrings.  The natural order may be to
> > try to move on to text attribute approach earlier so that the bare
> > representation doesn't matter much.  How do you think about these
> > things?
> 
> Interesting questions. I'm not sure what you mean by "tagging 
> ByteStrings" - generally my opinion is that String/ByteString/WideString 
> have the same reationship that Integer/SmallInteger/LargeInteger have. 

  With characters in 0..255 range, somebody may want to define
language tags and put them.  It would be nice if we can do that to be
transparent.

-- Yoshiki