Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> If I say to_utf8() once more on it I expect to get a string containing
> 4 chars:
> 
>   "\xC3\x82\xC2\xA9"
> 
> and I expect from_utf8() to go the other way.

Ahhh, no wonder we differed.  My brain equates to_utf8(to_utf8()) with
to_utf8().

> Your to_utf8() seems to be named after "turn-on-the-utf8-flag" which I

Nope.  It's "convert-bytes-to-utf8-and-turn-on-the-utf8-flag".  
Maybe my documentation of the functions is somehow bad and confusing?

> think of as just an internal implementation detail.  What if we change
> the internal representation to be always UTF-32.  Do you want to
> rename your functions then?

No, why should I?  They would still convert bytes they expect
not to be/to be utf8 to something that is/is not utf8.

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