[IPython-dev] String encoding

[Fernando Perez]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> This sounds too complex.  I would say let's just go with (1).

That's my feeling too.  Jorgen, does that sound like a show stopper to you?

It does require the explicit u"" prefix for unicode literals, but that
seems like a reasonable thing to ask, given the semantics of byte
strings and unicode.

Cheers,

f