On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Michael Bridgers <mibrid@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 12/3/2011 3:47 AM, Niels Sascha Reedijk wrote: > >> > I have started on this, but I would be willing to wait for your >> commit. When do you think you will commit your changes? >> >> I will try to push this either today or tomorrow! >> >> > There seems to be rather strong feelings against what I'm proposing from a > number of people. > > While I believe that this would be a big step in a positive direction for > Haiku, I don't believe that my changes would be accepted. I won't be > submitting any changes. > > Michael > > Noooo! It's a very pity; I hope you rethink this, IMHO let BString treat only real Strings (that is UTF-8 ones) and creates a new class for store byte arrays was the good compromise. It avoids confusion as name says BString should contain only human readable strings not garbage arrays if this behavior was premise it was broken and you're right in fixin' it! fano