Am 08.05.2012 um 16:20 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe:

> <rant>Notice how f*cked up TextConverters are: when given a binary stream, 
> their natural input one would think, they just don't do any conversion!</rant>

Isn't that obvious? In a time where there was text or binary and your biggest 
problem was line ending conversion it is normal to do not any processing on a 
binary stream. It is its definition. The world has changed since then and since 
we have encodings there is no such thing as a text/ascii stream anymore. I 
think we have to slowly convert those things to modern stuff. How hard that is? 
Look at Grease it is a piece of modern software but still encodes string -> 
string. There are always caveats not to ignore.

Norbert

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