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Re: [hybi] WS framing alternative

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Tue, 27 October 2009 11:53 UTC

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Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> On 2009/10/27 19:08, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> Existing UTF-8 to character conversions will error if they get a partial
>> multipart character,
> 
> No, good transcoding libraries have options that say what to do in such
> a case. Iconv is definitely an example, String#encode in Ruby is another.

and such libraries make working out the length in bytes very
simple.   So if you have a good library, then the argument that
the byte length can't be known is not applicable.

regards

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