String, ByteString and WideString

> Working with WebClient i found what it lacks of non latin languages
> support (for example Russian). During investigation i found, what for
> streaming there used ByteString, which is custructed by calling String
> class>>new:. All subclases of String by calling of this method
> produces only ByteString instances. Also WriteStream>>contents
> indirectly calls String class>>new:. So even you construct WideString
> with #basicNew: calling
> (WideString basicNew: size) writeStrem contents
> produce only ByteString
>
> Is this a bug or there some workaround?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Andrey Larionov
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> On 01.08.2010 01:56, Andrey Larionov wrote:
>> Working with WebClient i found what it lacks of non latin languages
>> support (for example Russian). During investigation i found, what for
>> streaming there used ByteString, which is custructed by calling String
>> class>>new:. All subclases of String by calling of this method
>> produces only ByteString instances. Also WriteStream>>contents
>> indirectly calls String class>>new:. So even you construct WideString
>> with #basicNew: calling
>> (WideString basicNew: size) writeStrem contents
>> produce only ByteString
>
> You probably want one of the MultiByteStreams and then set either the
> encoding or the converter.
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
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