Input charsets - What's going on?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> > Is the feature broken by design?
> 
> The feature is indeed broken by design (for precisely this reason);
> however, it is in SUS so we're stuck with it.

Allowing conversion failures if they occur within comments (possibly with
a warning for them), skipping any unconvertible bytes, might help, but I
don't know how feasible this is.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk