Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?
Mike Romberg
romberg at smaug.fsl.noaa.gov
Mon Feb 10 17:37:00 EST 2003
>>>>> " " == 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.
Mike Romberg
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