[Python-3000] Questions about email bytes/str (python 3000)

[Guido van Rossum]

(Warning: quotation intentionally out of context!)

On 8/15/07, somebody wrote:
> For most users, there is only one charset: latin-1.

Whoa! Careful with those assumptions. This is very culture and
platforms dependent. For Americans it's ASCII (only half joking :-).
For most of the world it's likely UTF-8. In Asia, it's anything *but*
Latin-1. On my Mac laptop, the file system and the Terminal program
default to UTF-8.

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