[Python-Dev] Unicode, again

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Aahz Maruch writes:
 > Being someone who knows little about Unicode and being something of a
 > 7-bit ASCII snob, could someone clarify for me whether the UTF-8
 > proposal would cause any difficulty with a pure-ASCII file?  Or would I
 > have to give up the vi-compatible mode of vim?

Pure 7-bit ASCII is good as UTF-8; there may be some quirks with
control characters, but I'm not aware of anything specific.  The
difference between ASCII and UTF-9 starts at the 8th bit, so pure
ASCII (not Latin-1) should be quite happy in a UTF-8 world.


  -Fred

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