[XML-SIG] Re: [I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> So what do you think of my new proposal of using ASCII as the default
> "encoding"?  

I can live with it. I am mildly uncomfortable with the idea that I could
write a whole bunch of software that works great until some European
inserts one of their name characters. Nevertheless, being hard-assed is
better than being permissive because we can loosen up later.

What do we do about str( my_unicode_string )? Perhaps escape the Unicode
characters with backslashed numbers?

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