In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Martin Friebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I suggested to have a rtl, that has overloaded functions for each string
> > type.
> > of course that sounds easier than in fact it will be.
> 
> This is about the same as having all string routines in 3 flavours:
> RTLString, utf-8 and utf-16
> 
> the utf-8 and utf-16 could be done by assigning rtlstring to the adequate 
> type.
> 
> I think this is probably what we will end up with, because users of a
> particular encoding will build convenience routines for their favorite
> RTL routines.

Yes, for the core routines. It is nuts to make stuff like scandatetime in
two different encodings.
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