Re: problem with --enable-encoding

[Karl Berry]

    Won't flush_output after a call to insert_string help here?

Maybe.  I didn't try it.

    Well, now, yes; but imagine that someone, some day, adds more
    processing to the code after this stage--we will have a subtle bug
    that only sometimes raises its ugly head, depending on buffering.

If you want to spend time on this, go ahead.  I'm not going to.