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Re: [SG16] Bike shedding for Christmas: P1885 Naming Text Encodings

From: Florian Weimer <fw_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:36:22 +0100
* Corentin Jabot via SG:

> In P1885, I introduce the name "text_encoding" for the class representing
> the name of a text encoding.
> I wonder whether that might conflict or interfere with actual
> encoding/decoder classes and would like your opinion.
>
> Here are a few possible names:
> * Charset (IANA nomenclature, posix)
> * text_codec (Qt)
> * text_encoding
> * text_encoding_name (encoding is used by posix / python /

What's the context for this?

Is it for an iconv-like interface where the locale matters as well
(for transliteration, for example)?

Received on 2019-12-27 17:39:41