Re: The “binary-friendly” Latin-1

[Mike Gran]

> From:Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>

> Hello!
> 
> >>   1. The notion of a “binary-friendly” ISO-8859-1 encoding?  It’s
> >>     actually mostly gone with the iconv change, since every textual
> >>     access goes through iconv.  For binary accesses, the right API is
> >>     (rnrs io ports) or similar.
> >
> > An equivalent question is if you care about backward compatibility of
> > legacy ports.  Legacy ports returned strings and were once the only option.
> 
> You mean if there’s legacy code using a port of unspecified encoding to
> read binary data, right?
> 
> The iconv change doesn’t break it on GNU/Linux:

Cool.  Have you considered what you would want to do with 
the 'recv!' procedure?

[...]

> > Is the cost of doing the various string comparisons of port-encoding
> > strings negligible?  It was put in as a (premature) optimization.
> 
> The new code keeps open iconv conversion descriptors for each port and
> re-uses them; the only use of pt->encoding is when opening those CDs.

Sounds good.

Thanks,

Mike