[patch] Re: Encoding woes

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 19:32 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 01:37 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > | Other than that, how does that sound ?
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> > | Do we have a +1 on this ?
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> > | Are there any -1's ?
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> > +1
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> > I think it's the best thing we can do at the moment.  If it were easier
> > to create unicode string literals, I'd be in favour of not converting,
> > just requiring unicode.  This way still has some risk of encoding bugs.
> 
> Yah, I understand and agree, but unfortunately is isn't easier - and
> library users would also have to know.
> 
> I'll test and code a routine for this on Wednesday, and we can start
> plugging it in after that.

Done - 'wednesday' ;).
Http://people.ubuntu.com/~robertc/baz2.0/safe_unicode - ready for
merging. (I'm going to get two +1s on the actual branch now ;))

(push is running now, be a few minutes to upload it) - but theres a
patch attached for the impatient.

Cheers,
Rob

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