On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
The proposal is for only latin-1 and UTF-32 to be supported at first, and the eventual support of UTF-8 will be constrained by specification of the width in terms of characters rather than bytes, which conflicts with the use cases of UTF-8 that have been brought forth.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/ 2017-April/076668.html
thanks -- I had forgotten (clearly) it was that limited. But my question now is -- if there is a encoding-parameterized string dtype, then is it much more effort to have it support all the encodings in the stdlib? It seems that would solve everyone's issue. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov