character encoding support?

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I don't know that much about character encoding but this is a great project to learn... make sure this library allows the end user to convert between a variety of character encodings

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• http://php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php
• https://github.com/symfony/polyfill/blob/master/README.md
• http://stevephillips.me/blog/dealing-php-and-character-encoding
• https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/polyfill-mbstring
• http://unicode.org/resources/libraries.html
• http://pageconfig.com/post/portable-utf8
• http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php
• https://packagist.org/packages/ddeboer/transcoder

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I was playing around with potential API for character encoding support and I had an idea... maybe the Flavor class should have an option for "charEncoding" along with all the other shit it has that describes a CSV file. It might look like...

$flavor = new CSVelte\Flavor([
    'quoteChar' => '"',
    'escapeChar' => '\\',
    'charEncoding' => Encoding::UTF8
])

But I don't know. Because one of the things I liked about the "flavor" concept was the ability to create concrete "flavors" for like... "excel". This would make me have to have "excel-utf8", "excel-latin-blabla", etc.

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Look at your gmail at the "CSV" label. There is an e-mail from somebody from Finland who needs Scandinavian letters to work... write tests for his use case.