rfk/tnetstring — Issue #2: Violates standard by allowing encoded strings
Author: wolever
Created: 2012-02-10 23:30:35+00:00
State: open

Specifically, from the "Implementation Restrictions" sections of http://tnetstrings.org/:

> UTF-8 Strings
> String encoding is an application level, political, and display specification. Transport protocols should not have to decode random character encodings accurately to function properly.

While I wouldn't argue that the feature should be removed based on this, it would be nice if the documentation mentioned that the `encoding` option does violate the spec.