[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

[Martin v. Loewis]

SUZUKI Hisao <suzuki611@oki.com> writes:

> And almost every operating system in Japan is on the way to
> adopt Unicode to save us from the chaos.  I am afraid the
> mileage of the PEP will be fairly short and just results in
> loading a lot of burden onto the language, 

That is a mis-perception. The PEP does not add a lot of burden onto
the language; the stage-1 implementation is fairly trivial. The
biggest change in the interpreter will be to have the parser operate
on Unicode all the time; that change will be necessary stage 2,
whether UTF-8 will be the default encoding or not.

Also, the warning framework added will help people migrating - whether
towards UTF-8 or custom locally-declared encodings is their choice.

> I know it is not the best practice either.  However, you cannot
> safely write Shift_JIS into Python source file anyway, unless
> you hack up the interpreter parser itself for now.  

In stage 2 of the PEP, this will be possible (assuming Python has
access to a Shift_JIS codec).

Regards,
Martin