In article <5031bb2f$0$29972$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > So it may be with utf-8 someday. > > Only if you believe that people's ability to generate data will remain > lower than people's ability to install more storage. We're not talking *data*, we're talking *text*. Most of those whatever-bytes people are generating are images, video, and music. Text is a pittance compared to those. In any case, text on disk can easily be stored compressed. I would expect the UTF-8 and UTF-32 versions of a text file to compress to just about the same size. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list