[I18n-sig] Re: Strawman Proposal: Binary Strings

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> > About changing .encode() or the existing codecs to return binary
> > strings instead of normal strings: I'm -1 on this one since it
> > will break existing code.
> 
> -1.  core features shouldn't return binary data in text strings.
> foo.upper() shouldn't work if "foo" isn't known to contain text.
> if this breaks code (not sure it does), the binary data type
> needs more work.
> 
> > Instead, strings should probably carry along the encoding
> > information in an additional attribute (it is not always useful,
> > but can help in a few situations) provided that it is known.
> 
> -1.  evil.

Care to explain why ? (I think that such an attribute could be put
to some good use in (re-)unifying strings and Unicode).

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