Ray Dillinger scripsit: > It seems to me that we should not be thinking about the encoding > of characters, regardless of small or large lang, until it is > time to do I/O.
Byte sequences may have portions that are meant to be interpretable as characters under a given encoding. For example, if we want to construct a DNS request, we need to create a blob some parts of which (the host name being looked up) is encoded in ASCII and other parts are binary integers. This *can* be done as the packet is being sent, but it doesn't *have* to be done then, and indeed there may be good reasons to do it in advance. -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan Never in the field of human computing [email protected] has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few! (pace Winston Churchill) _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
