[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

[Jess Austin]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:27:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:03:58 am Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> So, to boil down the ebytes idea, it is basically a request for a
>> second string type that holds an octet stream plus an encoding name,
>> rather than a Unicode character stream.
>
> Do any other languages have any equivalent to this ebtyes type?

Ruby seems to do this:

http://yokolet.blogspot.com/2009/07/design-and-implementation-of-ruby-m17n.html

I don't use ruby myself, and I'm probably missing some subtle flaws,
but the exposition at that link makes sense to me.

cheers,
Jess