17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
11:17 p.m.
barry@python.org (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
Took me two days. I still say Unicode is something everyone wants until they get it. :)
Seriously, I think it's slightly different: End users don't want Unicode; they should not care. Software developers become scared easily when confronted with Unicode. However, considering the alternatives (preserving the original encoding all the time, and having to combine strings in different encodings), Unicode does simplify processing, IMO. Regards, Martin