Unicode in Python

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:14:17 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/21/2014 11:57 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> > As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive
> > written up some unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the
> > last couple of weeks:
> > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicoded-python.html

> "With python 3 we are at a stage where python programs can support 
> unicode well however python program- source is still completely ASCII."

> In Python 3, "Python reads program text as Unicode code points; the 
> encoding of a source file can be given by an encoding declaration and 
> defaults to UTF-8". Why start off with an erroneous statement, which you 
> even know and show is erroneous?

Ok

Ive reworded it to make it clear that I am referring to the character-sets and
not encodings.