On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:56:05PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > > > Normally, you should not have to ever convert strings between > > > > encodings. > > > > > > Then how do you process, say, a multi-part MIME body that has parts > > > in different character encodings? > > > > Excellent example. Email is absolutely something that you can work > > with on a byte-by-byte basis and have no need for considering > > characters. > > What operations are you excluding when you say "work with?" You're > being quite non-specific. Maybe that's part of the cause of our > arguing.
Indeed, that would be good to clarify. > Certainly searching for a given character string across multiple > MIME parts requires handling different encodings for different parts. Not if it was all converted at load-time. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
