Re: utf-16le vs utf-16-le

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andreas Schwab writes:

 > The whole point of en/decoding is to convert between internal and
 > external representation, no matter whether operating on a buffer or a
 > string.

Actually, that's an implementation detail.  I'm suggesting that the
world might be a better place if we decomposed the common
transformations we make in a different way.