On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 01:01:03 +0100 (MET) 
 Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz> wrote:

 > I'd need to pass not only data/tables, but also actual code -- the
 > implementation of encoding - i.e. "none" for iso-8859-[12], koi8-r;
 > "euc" for euc-jp; "utf-8" for utf8.  Some code sets may also
 > implement the conversion in software instead of using static tables.
 > 
 > LKM seems like natural choice here.

...and besides, once Ragge gets that new LKM code into the tree (HI
RAGGE!!! :-), it might be possible to have trusted, signed LKMs.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>