I am biased, but the Zn converters are better. Why ? Because they work between String
<-> Bytes as a text encoder/decoder should. They also have a number of extra
features (counting the number of encoded bytes, being able to move backwards on
input, being able to be very strict), are faster and have a clearer implementation.
Furthermore, they are more correct and implement more encodings.
There is also good documentation
http://stfx.eu/EnterprisePharo/Zinc-Encoding-Meta/
ZnCharacter[Read|Write]Stream are also very instructive, compare them to
MultiByteStream.
Should we throw the other one out ? Probably. But it is the same problems as
with Xtreams: the API is different and adding a compatibility layer would
defeat the purpose. So I don't know.
Sven
I would integrate the good ones and deprecate the old ones!
Stef
