Re: [Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Python Character Model

Neil Hodgson wrote:

Matz: "We don't believe there can be any single characer-encoding that encompasses all the world's languages. We want to handle multiple encodings at the same time (if you want to)."

neither does the unicode designers, of course: the point is that unicode only deals with glyphs, not languages. most existing japanese encodings also include language info, and if you don't understand the difference, it's easy to think that unicode sucks... I'd say we need support for *languages*, not more internal encodings. Cheers /F