Laura Creighton writes: > In a message of Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:52:38 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen writes: >>Jussi Piitulainen writes: >>> Has the world adopted UTF-8 as the default charset now or what? >>> (I'll be only glad to hear that it has, if it has, but a reference >>> to some sort of internet standard would be nice.) > > I don't think so. Americans and other English speakers still love > ASCII. but the ISO charsets are rapidly going the way of the > buggywhip. :) > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
I thought the ISO-8859 sets are going away in favour of UTF-8, and I welcome that development. ASCII is still fine as a subset of UTF-8. What's not fine is the use of encoded characters outside ASCII without a corresponding declaration (possibly a default) of the encoding (or my mail reader failing to understand that the declaration is there). But how is that link to a set of language codes relevant? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list