Fredrik Lundh wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
So what do you think of my new proposal of using ASCII as the default "encoding"?
How about using unicode-escape or raw-unicode-escape as default encoding ? (They would have to be adapted to disallow Latin-1 char input, though.)
The advantage would be that they are compatible with ASCII while still providing loss-less conversion and since they use escape characters, you can even read them using an ASCII based editor.
umm. if you disallow latin-1 characters, how can you call this one loss-less?
[Guido didn't like this one, so its probably moot investing any more time on this...] I meant that the unicode-escape codec should only take ASCII characters as input and disallow non-escaped Latin-1 characters. Anyway, I'm out of this discussion... I'll wait a week or so until things have been sorted out. Have fun, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/