On approximately 4/28/2009 10:00 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Martin v. Löwis:
An alternative that doesn't suffer from the risk of not being able to
store decoded strings would have been the use of PUA characters, but
people rejected it because of the potential ambiguities. So they clearly
dislike one risk more than the other. UTF-8b is primarily meant as
an in-memory representation.
The UTF-8b representation suffers from the same potential ambiguities as
the PUA characters... perhaps slightly less likely in practice, due to
the use of Unicode-illegal characters, but exactly the same theoretical
likelihood in the space of Python-acceptable character codes.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove.
-- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking
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