[I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate
Paul Prescod
paul@prescod.net
Tue, 02 May 2000 14:23:27 -0500
Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> ...
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> So what do you think of my new proposal of using ASCII as the default
> "encoding"?
I can live with it. I am mildly uncomfortable with the idea that I could
write a whole bunch of software that works great until some European
inserts one of their name characters. Nevertheless, being hard-assed is
better than being permissive because we can loosen up later.
What do we do about str( my_unicode_string )? Perhaps escape the Unicode
characters with backslashed numbers?
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