May 1, 2000
6:46 p.m.
Guido van Rossum writes:
The standard forces that work against all change -- existing tools, user habits, compatibility, etc.
Ah... I misread your original statement, which I took to be a technical reason why one couldn't convert ISO-2022-JP to UTF-8. Of course one cannot expect everyone to switch en masse to a new encoding, pulling their existing documents with them. I'm in full agreement there. -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Language Hacker http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"