[Python-Dev] Unicode, again
Martin v. Loewis
martin@v.loewis.de
04 Mar 2002 09:00:44 +0100
aahz@rahul.net (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?
UTF-8 is an "ASCII superset" in the sense that a UTF-8 text consisting
only of ASCII characters is byte-for-byte identical to the same text,
encoded in ASCII.
Regards,
Martin