[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Stefan Krah]

Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> In this regard, I'm glad to participate in mind-resetting discussion.
> So, let's reiterate - there's nothing like "the best", "the only right",
> "the only correct", "righter than", "more correct than" in CPython's
> implementation of Unicode storage. It is *arbitrary*. Well, sure, it's
> not arbitrary, but based on requirements, and these requirements match
> CPython's (implied) usage model well enough. But among all possible
> sets of requirements, CPython's requirements are no more valid that
> other possible. And other set of requirement fairly clearly lead to
> situation where CPython implementation is rejected as not correct for
> those requirements at all.

Several core-devs have said that using UTF-8 for MicroPython is perfectly okay.
I also think it's the right choice and I hope that you guys come up with a very
efficient implementation.


Stefan Krah