[Python-Dev] #pragmas in Python source code
Fredrik Lundh
Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:27:53 +0200
Fred Drake wrote:
> > While originally only the encoding used within the quotes of
> > u"..." was targetted (on the i18n sig), there has now been
> > some discussion on this list about whether to move forward
> > in a whole new direction: that of allowing whole Python scripts
>=20
> I had thought this was still an issue for interpretation of string
> contents, and really only meaningful when converting the source
> representations of Unicode strings to the internal represtenation.
why restrict the set of possible source encodings to ASCII
compatible 8-bit encodings?
(or are there really authoring systems out there that can use
different encodings for different parts of the file?)
> I see no need to change the language definition in general. Unless
> we *really* want to impose those evil trigraph sequences from C! ;)
sorry, but I don't see the connection.
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