Fuzzyman wrote: > I have a couple of questions about the UTF encodings. > > The codecs module has constants definded for the UTF32 encoding, yet > this encoding isn't supported as a standard encoding. Why isn't it > supported ?
Probably because there is little demand for it. The most widespread unicode encodings are utf-8 and utf-16 > > It possibly has something to do with my next question. I know that > unicode has (recently?) been expanded to include new character sets. > This means that the latest unicode standard can't be fully supported > with 2 bytes per character. As far as I know though, Python doesn't > (yet) support the extended version of unicode anyway ? Am I correct ? Python does support them. PEP 261 has the answers for your questions. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list