[Python-3000] email libraries: use byte or unicode strings?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Glenn Linderman writes:

 > But the API could speak Unicode, and do the appropriate translations. 
 > Or in some cases, inappropriate translations.

You've written that kind of thing three or four times by now.  As far
as I can see, you just don't care about any requirements beyond your
own.

 > Please be specific; just mentioning bit-flicking, or error cases, or bad 
 > encoding sounds terrible, but provides little information as to how it 
 > can be handled via some theoretical bytes interface that cannot be 
 > handled equally as effectively (although perhaps not equally 
 > efficiently) via a transliterated Unicode data stream.

I did.  You missed it.  Reread my example of mixing types.  That is
not theory, that is Emacs practice.  And it's not good practice.