On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Shiro Kawai wrote:

>From: Michael Sperber <xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
>Subject: Re: finishing output translating stream
>Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:15:57 +0200
>
>last few characters might be sitting in the character conversion
>buffer.
>
>But I might be able to achieve it by creating and closing a
>stream each time I want a complete "packet".  Though it
>seems to me lots of overhead, it may be doable.

The rational alternative is, of course, an explicit flush-stream
call.

				Bear