M.-A. Lemburg writes: > On 2008-05-22 13:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes: > >> It's all a matter of perspective. You can say you're encoding Latin-1 > >> to Unicode, or you can say your encoding Unicode to Latin-1. > > > > Except that Latin-1 is an encoding while Unicode is not. > > Well, yes and no :-) > > Unicode does encode a way to describe code points.
I don't think this is a useful POV in the context of Python, where 'unicode' is a primitive type, and not implemented as an array of (Python) integers. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
