On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:15:01 +1000, James Gray <james / grayproductions.net>  
wrote:

> On Oct 1, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
>> I think that some libraries (including possibly CSV) should make that  
>> effort, while others won't need it.
>
> To be honest, I doubt I would have made the effort if I had known this  
> change was coming.  It was challenging and I'm a wimp.  ;)

But then you would have missed out on all the fun ;)
Someone had to be the trailblazer, James, even if it was only to find out  
that it wasn't the best path :-)
But I agree with you: if a library can be confident that its inputs are at  
least ASCII-comptible, quite a bit of your efforts could be saved.
If on top of that, if it can be reasonably sure that all its inputs are  
encoding compatible, then it's even better.

Your efforts weren't wasted.

Cheers
Mike