[Python-Dev] PEP 3333: wsgi_string() function

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Robert Brewer writes:

 > Python 3.1 was released June 27th, 2009. We're coming up faster on the
 > two-year period than we seem to be on a revised WSGI spec. Maybe we
 > should shoot for a "bytes of a known encoding" type first.

You have one.  It's called "ISO 2022: Information processing -- ISO
7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets -- Code extension techniques".
The popularity of that standard speaks for itself.