On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Atsuo Ishimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I've certainly gotten over it, and have come to appreciate your point of view. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
