Re: [Python-Dev] Encoding of 8-bit strings and Python source code

Sorry, all this proposal does is change the default encoding on conversions from UTF-8 to Latin-1. That's very western-culture-centric.

That decision was made by ISO and the Unicode consortium, not me. I don't know why, and I don't really care -- I'm arguing that strings should contain characters, just like the language reference says, and that all characters should be from the same character repertoire and use the same character codes.