Matthew Bentham wrote:
"It’s not unreasonable to have a program that wants to encode its outputin a particular encoding. The example I gave earlier still seemsreasonable to be, a program that takes input in one encoding andrecodes to a different encoding on its output, with both the input andoutput encoding specified on the command line. Clearly such a programshould be able to use stdin and stdout so that it can form part of apipe. So how in Python do I change sys.stdout to use a particular encoding? It’s a right pain."
Which is an excellent point. But there are two (different) areas here. (1) how we make the over-simplistic H98 interface do something 'mostly right' or 'least worst' (2) how we design a better (but necessarily non-H98) interface for more sophisticated programs. And we need to solve (1) independently of all the possible nice design spaces for (2). Jules