<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Krasimir Angelov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kr.angelov@gmail.com">kr.angelov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I see that the text package provides its own encoding/decoding<br>
functions. This overlaps with the Unicode API offered from the base<br>
package.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The API in base is oriented towards encoding/decoding of text<br>
when doing file IO but definitely the conversion utils should be<br>
reused.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, that's not possible, as it would break backwards compatibility with 6.10, which some industrial users still need.</div></div>