25 Apr
2006
25 Apr
'06
8:11 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:08:45PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
The name Latin1 is particularly bad since there are many other single byte encodings around.
The name is quite appropriate, since that is the particular encoding of Char that is exposed by the interface. What's bad is that there's no choice. Calling it Latin1 is just being honest about that, and leaving room for modules with other encodings or an interface parameterized by encoding.