On 28 mar, 14:01, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:11:55 +1100, Neil Hodgson wrote: > > Ian Foote: > > > > One benefit of > > UTF-8 over Python's flexible representation is that it is, on average, > > more compact over a wide set of samples. > > Sure. And over a different set of samples, it is less compact. If you > write a lot of Latin-1, Python will use one byte per character, while > UTF-8 will use two bytes per character. >
This flexible string representation is so absurd that not only "it" does not know you can not write Western European Languages with latin-1, "it" penalizes you by just attempting to optimize latin-1. Shown in my multiple examples. (This is a similar case of the long and short int question/dicussion Chris Angelico opened). PS1: I received plenty of private mails. I'm suprise, how the dev do not understand unicode. PS2: Question I received once from a registrated French Python Developper (in another context). What are those French characters you can handle with cp1252 and not with latin-1? jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
