It seems to me that the problem is that a) it seems like an unnecessary duplication of work to be double-encoding and decoding and b) could be a problem for interoperability with other non-pike applications that share the same dataset (which don't have the same encoding behavior). Personally, I'd rather have the automatic encoding be turned off by default, but would accept an option to do so manually.
Bill
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:50:01PM +0100, Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
Conversion to UTF8 doesn't hurt anything (except space).
Unless input is UTF8 encoded already. That's what I am trying to tell during this discussion.
UTF8-encoding something twice doesn't hurt; just UTF8-decode twice, and you're back where you started.