On 5 June 2014 22:10, Stefan Krah stefan@bytereef.org wrote:
Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml@gmail.com wrote:
In this regard, I'm glad to participate in mind-resetting discussion. So, let's reiterate - there's nothing like "the best", "the only right", "the only correct", "righter than", "more correct than" in CPython's implementation of Unicode storage. It is *arbitrary*. Well, sure, it's not arbitrary, but based on requirements, and these requirements match CPython's (implied) usage model well enough. But among all possible sets of requirements, CPython's requirements are no more valid that other possible. And other set of requirement fairly clearly lead to situation where CPython implementation is rejected as not correct for those requirements at all.
Several core-devs have said that using UTF-8 for MicroPython is perfectly okay. I also think it's the right choice and I hope that you guys come up with a very efficient implementation.
Based on this discussion , I've also posted a draft patch aimed at clarifying the relevant aspects of the data model section of the language reference (http://bugs.python.org/issue21667).
Cheers, Nick.