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          James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm working on implementing the ord(i,s) and chr(s,i) opcodes I talked about
> earlier, and I noticed what I consider a bug: there exist no transcode
> functions to or from native.

That's because we haven't worked out the necessary logistics for
that yet - it requires some means for determing what the native
character set is based on the locale which can then be used to load
an appropriate transcoding table.

> Also, the diagonals (identy transforms) don't exist.  This means that you
> have to explicitly check that you aren't transcoding from an encoding to the
> same encoding.

That is as per Dan's spec. I have thought about adding a wrapper
routine to do the check you refer to.

Tom

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