For most uses of libwww, developers do little with character encoding. Indeed, for general-case use of LWP::Simple, they can't, because that information isn't even exposed. Has any thought gone into doing this internally within libwww, so that when I fetch content, I get back text instead of octets?
I'd be happy to help work on some of this, but the fact that I see no use of character encodings within libwww makes me wonder if this is more of a policy decision not to do it. David
