On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Krasimir Angelov <kr.angelov@gmail.com> wrote:

Exactly. But it is probably possible to make version of text which
with 6.10 uses some copy of the routines and with 6.12 uses the
routines in base.

It might be possible, but I am not going to do it :-)

For now at least the API should be made compatible with base.

I'm afraid not. The TextEncoding type ties encoding and decoding together, when in pure code you need just one or the other. The TextEncoding design is fine for read/write Handles, where you may need both, but it does not make sense for pure code, where the current API provided by text is more appropriate.