Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?
Roman Suzi
rnd at onego.ru
Tue Feb 11 00:44:40 EST 2003
On 10 Feb 2003, Mike Romberg wrote:
>>>>>> " " == Aaron Swartz <me at aaronsw.com> writes:
>
> > Roman Suzi wrote:
> >> I've made some summary again (please correct me if I
> >> misunderstood):
>
> > I'm fine with the PEP except that it should treat the default
> > encoding as utf-8, not ascii.
>
> > The Internet, like the rest of the world, is transitioning to
> > untagged utf-8 so we don't have to deal with this character set
> > mess. Python should too.
>
> I agree. I'm working on a project which allows users to extend our
>application by writing python scripts. I fear the reaction we will
>get (and the support nightmare) when we have to tell them they need to
>mark all of their files with a default encoding. To break old code
>like this, seems like something that would be done in a python 3.x
>type release. To me it is a major change. I see nothing wrong with
>allowing the default mentioned above.
Two encodings are mentioned above. Which one is not acceptable to you?
And Guido promised to make default site encoding tweakable by site.py
mechanism.
>Mike Romberg
>
Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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