Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk>: > On 14/07/17 14:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Of course, UTF-8 in a bytes object doesn't make the situation any >> better, but does it make it any worse? > > Speaking as someone who has been up to his elbows in this recently, I > would say emphatically that it does make things worse. It adds an > extra layer of complexity to all of the questions you were asking, and > more. A single codepoint is a meaningful thing, even if its meaning > may be modified by combining. A single byte may or may not be > meaningful.
I'd like to understand this better. Maybe you have a couple of examples to share? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
