2 May
2000
2 May
'00
12:23 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
...
So what do you think of my new proposal of using ASCII as the default "encoding"?
I can live with it. I am mildly uncomfortable with the idea that I could write a whole bunch of software that works great until some European inserts one of their name characters. Nevertheless, being hard-assed is better than being permissive because we can loosen up later. What do we do about str( my_unicode_string )? Perhaps escape the Unicode characters with backslashed numbers? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on. - http://www.cs.yale.edu/~perlis-alan/quotes.html