[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) a table with characters that are reasonably valuable
> and cover 99% of all programming, communication and typography in latin
> script
>

I think it's called latin-1

And I think you've mentioned numpy - there was a discussion a while back
about having a one-byte-per-character string type (the existing ones are 4
byte unicode and kinda-sort-py2-string/bytes dtype)

perhaps you might want to revive that conversation.

-CHB



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