kxroberto <kxrobe...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I wonder where is the origin, who is the inventor of the frequent charset=unicode? But:
"Sorry, but it's not obviously that Unicode means UTF-8." When I faced <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> the first time on the web, I guessed it is UTF-8 without looking. It even sounds colloquially reasonable ;-) And its right 99.999% of cases. (UTF-16 is less frequent than this non-canonical "unicode") "Definitely; this will just serve to create more confusion for beginners over what a Unicode string is: unicodestring.encode('unicode') <- WTF?" I guess no python tutorial writer or encoding menu writer poses that example. That string comes in on technical paths: web, MIME etc. In the aliases.py there are many other names which are not canonical. frequency > convenience > alias "Joining the chorus: people who need it in their application will have to add it themselves (monkeypatching the aliases dictionary as appropriate)." Those people first would need to be aware of the option: Be all-seeing, or all wait for the first bug reports ... Reverse question: what would be the minus of having this alias? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13432> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com