Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > MS Notepad and MS Office save Unicode text files in UTF-16-LE, > unless you explicitly specify UTF-8, just like many other Windows > applications that support Unicode text files:
I'd be curious to know if people actually edit *text files* using Microsoft Word (rather than Word documents). Same for Notepad, which is much too poor to edit something else than a 10-line configuration file. > You are forgetting that wchar_t is UTF-16 on Windows, so UTF-16 > is all around you when working on Windows, not only in the OS APIs, > but also in most other Unicode APIs you find on Windows: Still, unless those APIs get passed rather large strings, the performance different should be irrelevant IMHO. We're talking about using those APIs from Python, not from a raw optimized C program. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
