[I18n-sig] Concatenation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Would anyone out there that would object if this were allowed in Python
> 2.1:
> 
> >>> u"abc"+"\245"
> u"abc\245"
> 
> I can vaguely (only vaguely) understand the arguments about casting when
> passing high-bit data to a C-API but I wonder if anyone would argue that
> the code above is ambiguous in its intent.

Please see my other reply on this subject. We can't simply ignore
the default encoding here or else people will lose data !

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