Shane Hathaway wrote: > Then something in the Python docs ought to say why UCS-2 is not what you > want. I still don't know; I've heard differing opinions on the subject. > Some say you'll never need more than what UCS-2 provides. Is that > incorrect?
That clearly depends on who "you" is. > More generally, how should a non-unicode-expert writing Python extension > code find out the minimum they need to know about unicode to use the > Python unicode API? The API reference [1] ought to at least have a list > of background links. I had to hunt everywhere. That, of course, depends on what your background is. Did you know what Latin-1 is, when you started? How it relates to code page 1252? What UTF-8 is? What an abstract character is, as opposed to a byte sequence on the one hand, and to a glyph on the other hand? Different people need different background, especially if they are writing different applications. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
