On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 12:25 AM 9/21/2009 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: >> >> Anyway, for us slower (and maybe wrongly fearful) folks, could someone >> summarize the benefits of having a WSGI specification that requires Unicode. >> Bonus points for an explanation that does not boil down to "it will be >> compatible with Python 3". > > +1. I'd really rather not have the spec dictated by the need to work around > problems in the stdlib or language definition. Better to fix them ASAP. >
hi, here is a summary: Apart from python3 compatibility(which should be good enough reason), utf-8 is what's used in http a lot these days. Most things layered on top of wsgi are using utf-8 (django etc), and lots of web clients are using utf-8 (firefox etc). Why not move to unicode? _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com