On Wednesday 27 December 2006 23:08, Michael Gerz wrote: > In case of an error, we could also try to convert each character > individually (some may survive iconv) but maybe this is too much effort > and leads to unwanted result as well.
That would be easy to implement, but probably be slow, and it does not make sense IMHO. I am going to put the empty string solution in and adding a FIXME that we might want to throw an exception in the future. Georg