On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > The situation before ascii is like where we ended up *before* unicode. > Unicode aims to replace all those byte encoding and character sets with > *one* byte encoding for *one* character set, which will be a great > simplification. It is the idea of ascii applied on a global rather that > local basis.
Unicode doesn't deal with byte encodings; UTF-8 is an encoding, but so are UTF-16, UTF-32. and as many more as you could hope for. But broadly yes, Unicode IS the solution. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
