On 14/07/17 14:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Of course, UTF-8 in a bytes object doesn't make the situation any better, but does it make it any worse?
Speaking as someone who has been up to his elbows in this recently, I would say emphatically that it does make things worse. It adds an extra layer of complexity to all of the questions you were asking, and more. A single codepoint is a meaningful thing, even if its meaning may be modified by combining. A single byte may or may not be meaningful.
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