From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-08-07T16:52:38+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9 String and M17N documentation

Eric Hodel wrote:
> I'm too lazy to dig this out of the archives, but there are some
> encodings that don't have a 1:1 mapping to Unicode thus the round-trip
> through UTF-8 (etc.) will destroy them.

Indeed, although we're both having a hard time thinking of an actual 
example. It seems that dealing with such things is not an everyday 
requirement for most people. So you write a library for that, and then 
the rest of us aren't saddled with the complexity.
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