From: Izidor Jerebic <ij.rubylist@...>
Date: 2006-06-27T06:21:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?


On 26.6.2006, at 23:04, Jim Weirich wrote:

> Clarification question:  When you say autoconversion, do you mean:
>
> (A) Automatically convert input strings to a given encoding  
> (independent
> of the question of a single vs multiple encodings).
>
> (B) When combining strings, autoconvert incompatible encodings into
> compatible encodings before combining.

Autoconversion (as suggested by many people in this thread) is meant  
to convert string in *compatible but different* encoding to the  
encoding of other string (or common compatible superset encoding), to  
facilitate the operation using those two strings.

Point A is the great can of worms and source of errors, which I  
suggested can be avoided by either:
1. Very simple and strict rules on String encoding of return values
2. Introduction of ByteArray as return values


izidor