Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's good advice, though treacherous.  If you use any encoding other
> than ASCII, you'll need to indicate the encoding used, and put up with
> recipients who don't know what "encoding" is

Yes, and this has been known for enough years (and slowly fixed
everywhere) that nowadays users *should* (and from what I can tell,
usually do) expect this to be handled properly.

It may still fail, of course, but this shouldn't be much more common
than the occurrence of any other bug.


        Stefan