right. I had just keyed in on this from Tom's message: "My code currently allows either set to provide the transform on the grounds that otherwise the unicode module would have to either know how to convert to everything else or from everything else."
...which seemed to posit that Unicode module could be responsible for all the transcodings to and from it's own character set, which seemed backwards to me. -Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 02:43 PM To: Stephen Howard; Tom Hughes; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: String rationale At 02:52 PM 10/29/2001 -0500, Stephen Howard wrote: >You might consider requiring all character sets be able to convert to Unicode, That's already a requirement. All character sets must be able to go to or come from Unicode. They can do others if they want, but it's not required. (And we'll have to figure out how to allow that reasonably efficiently) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
