Robert Kern wrote: > Well, *I* use UTF-8, but that's neither here nor there.
I see UTF-8 a lot, but this particular book also mentions that UTF-16 is the most common. Is that true? >> Why can't Unicode replace them so we no longer need the 'u' >> prefix or the encoding tricks? > > It would break a hell of a lot of code. Try using the -U command line argument > to the Python interpreter. That makes unicode strings default. I figured this might have something to do with it, but then again I thought that Unicode was created as a subset of ASCII and Latin-1 so that they would be compatible...but I guess it's never that easy. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
