[Python-Dev] unicodeobject.c,2.139,2.140 checkin

[Guido van Rossum]

> In the long run, I think that the Unicode type should be
> used for all text data and strings for binary data of unknown 
> encoding.

I think you're underestimating the tenacity of ASCII and Latin-1.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)