From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-08-12T07:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9 String and M17N documentation

On Aug 7, 2009, at 00:52, Brian Candler wrote:
> 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.

This seems to be similar to the reasoning behind two-digit years.

> So you write a library for that, and then the rest of us aren't  
> saddled with the complexity.

Unfortunately, software ends up getting used in places the author  
didn't expect.  Why not write robust software the first time instead  
of being lazy?