--- a/BIG5EncodedString.st	Mon Mar 15 12:44:48 2004 +0100
+++ b/BIG5EncodedString.st	Mon Mar 15 15:10:57 2004 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 "
 
 
-TwoByteString subclass:#BIG5EncodedString
+"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic2' }"
+
+TwoByteString variableWordSubclass:#BIG5EncodedString
 	instanceVariableNames:''
 	classVariableNames:''
 	poolDictionaries:''
@@ -37,9 +39,12 @@
 
 documentation
 "
+    OBSOLETE
+        this class will vanish - its functionality has been replaced
+        by the UnicodeString classes.
+
     BIG5EncodedString represents 16bit strings encoded in BIG-5.
     BIG-5 is a popular hanzi code used in Taiwan.
-    Most of you are probably not interested in those ...
 
     [author:]
         Claus Gittinger
@@ -49,8 +54,6 @@
         TwoByteString String CharacterArray
         StringCollection
 "
-
-
 ! !
 
 !BIG5EncodedString class methodsFor:'initialization'!
@@ -127,6 +130,7 @@
 !BIG5EncodedString class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic2/BIG5EncodedString.st,v 1.10 1997-06-30 18:54:24 cg Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic2/BIG5EncodedString.st,v 1.11 2004-03-15 14:10:51 cg Exp $'
 ! !
+
 BIG5EncodedString initialize!