UTF-8 library

[Joe English]

anatoli wrote:

> I'd still rather associate locale with a handle. This way, all
> Char and String IO functions that exist, and those that are not
> written yet, can work with any encoding without relying on the
> abomination that is setlocale().

Seconded; this is the best approach.  The libc locale could
be consulted to determine the initial or default encoding,
or it could just be ignored (I'd vote to ignore it; setlocale() 
*is* an abomination.)

BTW, this is how Tcl does it -- each file handle has an associated
encoding (which may be changed on the fly) -- and it's very convenient.


--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com