<span class="gmail_quote"></span><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Torbjorn Tornkvist</b> <<a href="mailto:tobbe@tornkvist.org">tobbe@tornkvist.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ludovic Coquelle wrote:<br>> I found an 'iconv' driver in Jungerl.<br>> But it has no documentation at all (ok, it should be fairly simple) and<br>> no activity status.<br><br>Well, it is very easy to use:
</blockquote><div><br>Indeed, really easy! Thank you for the detailed answer.<br><br>Anyway to "guess" the encoding of an input string?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> (I'm a bit tired to always get the same comment about Erlang: there is<br>> no good string library ... and it's a show stop to Erlang adoption by<br>> certain project and mine particularly)<br><br>So what, exactly, is missing (apart from a proper string data type...) ?
</blockquote><div><br>Perhaps I was not clear... I don't think Erlang "miss" something about string manipulation (only this encoding that you just solve) but that's maybe because I come with some Prolog experience. Anyway I just don't understand the real advantage of a string data type (for me it only means that performance could be better), so I don't understand why people complain so much about that.
<br>Any previous discussion pointer about string data type?<br></div><br></div>