Re: Lstreams, coding and md5 (was: Re: [PATCH] menubar selection in mswindows)

Thursday, 30 April 1998

        ...
 Before coding systems came into the picture, Fmd5 was an exemplary
 of Lisp elegance:

    `md5' is a built-in function
    (md5 OBJECT &optional START END)

    Documentation:
    Return the MD5 message digest of OBJECT, a buffer or string.

    Optional arguments START and END denote positions for computing the
    digest of a portion of OBJECT. 

I'm a MOLE (MOnoLingual Emacs) so take what I have with a shalt shaker 
but shouldn't OBJECT be in the already appropriate coding system for
whatever the message digest is being computed?
To put it another way, shouldn't there be a set of functions that
given an OBJECT in one coding system return another OBJECT in a
different coding system?

--pete
P.S. I don't understand MULE and I'm not going to try to, so
     don't waste a lot of time if "no" is an appropriate answer.

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