Jarkko> Assume I have a string a bunch of bytes that makes sense in
Jarkko> Shift-JIS, as Shift-JIS characters. Now, how I am going to get it
Jarkko> to Unicode? chars_to_blah() won't help since they are not yet in
Jarkko> Unicode chars. So yes, I think you are right, we need the
Jarkko> bytes_to_utf8(), and bytes_to_chars() is then a natural
Jarkko> convenience wrapper.
Taking the view that "bytes are bytes" or "bytes are text in some encoding",
then bytes_to_utf8() and utf8_to_bytes() should take an encoding parameter.
Then chars_to_utf8() and utf8_to_chars() don't need an encoding parameter
because they simply convert between Unicode characters and UTF-8.
Or is there some other factor I've missed in all the confusion?
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