From: Philipp Hofmann <phil@...126.de>
Date: 2008-02-01T05:13:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Gedankenexperiment on method duck type safety


hi,

i'm curious if there is a better (in the means of faster) way to
transform an utf8 encoded string to ascii, than this

  str.unpack('U*').pack('c*')

g phil