On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Atsuo Ishimoto writes: > > 2008/5/23 Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Personally, I can live with it. I rarely generate Japanese text so I > > > doubt it'll be a problem. I can also change the console encoding and > > > error handler. > > > > While you rarely generate Japanese text, but I guess you often get > > non-ASCII text data e.g. SPAM mail in Japanese, Rietveld comments in > > Spanish, etc. Forecasting encoding of data is hard in these days. > > I don't see the problem. You don't have to forecast the encoding of > data. Strings are Unicode in Python internal format. The question is > whether the device receiving the output of repr can handle all of the > characters that will be generated. >
Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, perhaps this is not big deal. _______________________________________________ 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
