[Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Sun Nov 15 06:51:12 EST 2015


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> I don't see any good reason for allowing non-ASCII-compatible
> encodings in the reference CPython interpreter.

There might be a case for having the tokenizer not care about encodings
at all and just operate on a stream of unicode characters provided by a
different layer.



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