On 28.06.2011 19:06, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/28/2011 10:46 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > >> I use Windows, and come from the UK, so 99% of my text files are >> ASCII. So the majority of my code will be unaffected. But in the >> occasional situation where I use a £ sign, I'll get encoding errors, > > I do not understand this. With utf-8 you would never get a string > encoding error.
Yes, but you'll get plenty of *decoding* errors. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
