Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 08.10.2013 10:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > utf-16 isn't that widely used, so it's probably fine if it becomes a bit > slower.
It's the default encoding for Unicode text files and APIs on Windows, so I'd say it *is* widely used :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
