toString vs. toUtf8

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

BCS wrote:

> Reply to Sean,
> 
>> I was looking at converting Tango's use of toUtf8 to toString today
>> and ran into a bit of a quandry.
> [...]
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
> 
> why? What is to be gained by having tango us toString rather than toUTF*?
> IIRC there was a big thing, back when tango started using toUTF8 in place
> of toString, about how using toUTF8 would solve a number of these issues.
> If it is as part of the Phobos/Tango collaboration project, I think that
> is going the other way would be better (add toUTF8 to Phoboe's Object and
> an alias to make old things compile.

Ooh, that would be nice. Apparently toString is the only thing not up for
discussion at all on Walter's end.

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