May 4, 2000
2:40 p.m.
I think I hear a moderate consensus developing that the 'ASCII proposal' is a reasonable compromise given the time constraints. But let's not fail to come back to this ASAP -- it _really_ narcs me that every time I load XML into my Python-based editor I'm going to convert large amounts of wide-string data into UTF-8 just so Tk can convert it back to wide-strings in order to display it!
Thanks -- but that's really Tcl's fault, since the only way to get character data *into* Tcl (or out of it) is through the UTF-8 encoding. And is your XML really stored on disk in its 16-bit format? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)