Re: [Gnash-dev] Character encoding design

[Russ Nelson]

Benjamin Wolsey writes:
 > I favour using a custom string class in libcore only, because it can
 > solve all the problems most efficiently. The disadvantage is that it
 > requires changes to the core (mostly minor changes, but lots of
 > them).

This is not a big disadvantage in my mind.  The changes are likely to
be mostly mechanical changes (syntax), rather than meaning (semantics).

 > The other difficulty is finding a way of enforcing the interface.

Worry less about that.  Python has no interface enforcement other than
the convention that variable names which begin with _ are private
names.

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