John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to convert back and forth. But why isn't Unicode considered a regular > string by now? Is it for historical reasons that we still use ASCII and > Latin-1?
The point is, that, with a regular string, you don't know its encoding or whether it has an encoding at all - it might as well be just a byte buffer. The best thing would be to have byte buffer and a unicode string type but, this can't happen as long as you don't want to break existing code. > Why can't Unicode replace them so we no longer need the 'u' > prefix or the encoding tricks? It's proposed for python 3000 (http://www.python.org/doc/peps/pep-3000/) and I think it will make it into the language. Cheers, --Jan Niklas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
