"Bob Ippolito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The argument for UTF-8 is probably interop efficiency. Lots of C > libraries, file formats, and wire protocols use UTF-8 for interchange. > Verifying the validity of UTF-8 during string creation isn't that big > of a deal.
Indeed, UTF-8 validation/creation isn't a big deal. But that wasn't my concern. My concern was Python-only operation efficiency, for which a fixed-length-per-character encoding generally wins (at least for operations involving two strings with the same internal encoding). - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
