>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote: >> > The sooner we replace the erroneous >> > “text is ASCII” in the common wisdom with “text is Unicode”, the >> > better. >> >> I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with >> "text is binary data, and we should normally look at that text through >> Unicode eyes". A little less catchy, but more accurate ;) > > No, that's inaccurate. A sequence of bytes is binary data. Unicode is > not binary data.
Well now, this is an area that is not actually well-defined. I would say 16-bit Unicode is binary data if you're encoding in base 65,536, just as 8-bit ascii is binary data if you're encoding in base-256. Which is to say: there is no intervening data to suggest a TYPE. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list