kxroberto <[email protected]> added the comment:
I wonder where is the origin, who is the inventor of the frequent
charset=unicode? But:
"Sorry, but it's not obviously that Unicode means UTF-8."
When I faced
<meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
the first time on the web, I guessed it is UTF-8 without looking. It even
sounds colloquially reasonable ;-) And its right 99.999% of cases.
(UTF-16 is less frequent than this non-canonical "unicode")
"Definitely; this will just serve to create more confusion for beginners over
what a Unicode string is:
unicodestring.encode('unicode') <- WTF?"
I guess no python tutorial writer or encoding menu writer poses that example.
That string comes in on technical paths: web, MIME etc.
In the aliases.py there are many other names which are not canonical. frequency
> convenience > alias
"Joining the chorus: people who need it in their application will have to add
it themselves (monkeypatching the aliases dictionary as appropriate)."
Those people first would need to be aware of the option: Be all-seeing, or all
wait for the first bug reports ...
Reverse question: what would be the minus of having this alias?
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