On 9/20/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/20/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow, you really did mean code units. In that case I'm very tempted to > > > support UTF-8, with byte indexing (which is what code units are in its > > > case). It's ugly, but it technically works fine, and it's the de > > > facto standard on Linux. No more ugly than UTF-16 code units IMO, > > > just more obvious. > > > > Who charged you with designing the string implementation? > > Last I checked, the point of mailing lists such as these was to allow > input from the community at large. > > In any case, my reaction was simply because I misunderstood your intentions.
I was specifically reacting to your use of the phrasing "I'm very tempted to support UTF-8"; this wording suggests that it would be your choice to make. I could have pointed out the obvious (that equating the difficulty of using UTF-8 with that of using UTF-16 doesn't make it so) but I figured the other readers are also tired of your attempts to move this into an entirely different direction, and based on a thorough lack of understanding of the status quo no less. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
