[docs] [issue13997] Clearly explain the bare minimum Python 3 users should know about Unicode

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Sun Feb 12 09:58:47 CET 2012


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> A common programming task is "I want to process this text file,
> I know it's in an ASCII compatible encoding, I don't know which
> one specifically, but I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts
> so it doesn't matter".

Can you give more detail about this use case? Why would you ignore non-ASCII characters?

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nosy: +haypo

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