Hi,
> Python's drive towards uncompromising explicitness pays off
big time when you're dealing with multilingual data.
Except for the very implicit choice of 'ascii' as an encoding when it cannot make a good guess of course :-).
Since 'ascii' is a legal subset Unicode and of most prevailing encodings, this is the only sensible thing to do. It is outside of the ascii range where characters become ambigious and need additional interpretation. Where other languages might ignore the problem at hand and send garbled data or replace characters to the output, Python at least let's you respond to conversion problems/errors.
All in all I agree, however.
That's good to hear ;)
-- Vincent Wehren
Ciao, MM
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