Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Francois Pinard]

[Roman Suzi]

> Let's make -*- necessary for ASCII as well - and watch at the 
> reaction of Python users ;)

Yes, I know.  Similar examples abound.  Just one or two.  UTF-8 has been
designed so ASCII is wholly undisturbed, and even then, many people who
limit themselves to ASCII are reluctant to UTF-8.  Some people insist
for American writing of dates to be ubiquitous.  The planetary aspect of
computer communications is not yet fully granted for everybody! :-) Yet,
very admittedly, a lot of progress have been made in the recent years.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard