June 4, 2016
5:24 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 21:19, Chris Barker wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
*Emacs has two concrete types: "byte strings" which can contain no non-ASCII characters, and "unicode strings" which use UTF-8 (plus those extra code points)
Uhm, I'm confused, isn't the exactly what py3 has now? byte strings and unicode strings?
_maybe_ you want a little more interoperability, but those types are there.
Er, no, I'm talking about two concrete implementations of the abstract string type. Same as how Python has four: ASCII, Latin-1, UCS-2, and UCS-4.