From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-17 15:21:27
At 01:20 PM 2/17/2004, Walter Landry wrote:
>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Does that make sense?
>
>Perfect sense. I was a bit concerned that you were going to do
>something like convert everything to UTF-8 or treat everything as a
>stream of bytes.
No, that was never a consideration. It would give only an illusion of
solving the problem.
> It sounds like you're foisting most of the
>responsibilities onto the programmer, which is fine with me.
I think of it as defaulting to something that is sensible for the operating
system, but allowing the programmer to assume full responsibility if
desired.
--Beman