On Mon, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:27:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:03:58 am Nick Coghlan wrote: >> So, to boil down the ebytes idea, it is basically a request for a >> second string type that holds an octet stream plus an encoding name, >> rather than a Unicode character stream. > > Do any other languages have any equivalent to this ebtyes type?
Ruby seems to do this: http://yokolet.blogspot.com/2009/07/design-and-implementation-of-ruby-m17n.html I don't use ruby myself, and I'm probably missing some subtle flaws, but the exposition at that link makes sense to me. cheers, Jess _______________________________________________ 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
