On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, I wrote:

> Currently there are only 1-byte arrays (ByteArray) and 4-byte arrays
> (object pointers and words). 

One addition: there is some sort-of 2-byte support via primitives 143 and
144 (see, for example, class SoundBuffer) that uses word arrays and
stores 2 shorts into one word. You would have to make sure your strings
are always of even size.

  /bert