On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't fully understand > why making strings simply "unicode" in javascript breaks compatibility > with older scripts. What operations are performed on strings that > making unicode an abstract type would break?
Imagine this in JavaScript and Python (apart from the fact that JS doesn't do backslash escapes past 0x10000): a = "asdf\U00012345qwer"; b = a[[..10]; What will this do? It depends on whether UTF-16 is used or not. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
