8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
1:29 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Krasimir Angelov
I see that the text package provides its own encoding/decoding functions. This overlaps with the Unicode API offered from the base package.
It doesn't really. As you note, the stuff in base is all tied to I/O on Handles, whereas the functions in the text package are pure.
The API in base is oriented towards encoding/decoding of text when doing file IO but definitely the conversion utils should be reused.
Unfortunately, that's not possible, as it would break backwards compatibility with 6.10, which some industrial users still need.