John Salerno wrote: > 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?
I think it unlikely, but I have no numbers to give. And I'll bet that that book doesn't either. >>>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. :) No, it isn't. You seem to be somewhat confused about Unicode. At least you are misusing terminology quite a bit. You may want to read the following articles: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
