2009/8/28 Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org>:
> ...
>
>  One question is the roadmap; I would think ByteStrings will be
> retained for a while (or forever) but may be also phased out.

I would hope that ByteStrings are retained. I don't feel that
WideStrings as a general replacement for ByteStrings.

> 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.

Can you elaborate a bit?

Cheers
Philippe