Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

[Graham Barr]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:17:50AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:24:47AM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
> > Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > My stab at names would be:
> > > 
> > >      utf8bytes_to_chars()
> > >     
> > >      chars_to_utf8bytes();
> > 
> > That works for me.
> 
> That screams of getting the user *WAY* too involved with the underlying

Not really. I read that as

utf8bytes_to_chars()

Here is a buffer of bytes that are actually a UTF8 encoding of some string,
please convert it to charaters of whatever encoding the system uses internally.

chars_to_utf8bytes()

Here is a buffer which contains a string of chars encoded in whatever
the system decided, please give me a utf8 encoding of that string.

OK, right now the system uses utf8 so these may just be turning
on/off the utf8 flag. But the fact that they convert utf8<=>chars
allows the system to use whatever encoding it likes for chars.

Graham.