Terry Carroll wrote: > I'm just saying that UTF-8 encodes ascii characters to themselves; but > UTF-8 is not the same as ascii. > > I think we're ultimately saying the same thing; to merge both our ways of > putting it, I think, is that ascii will map to UTF-8 identically; but > UTF-8 may map back or it will raise UnicodeDecodeError. > > I just didn't want to leave the impression "Yeah, UTF-8 & ascii, they're > the same thing."
I hope neither of us gave that impression! I think you are right, we just have different ways of thinking about it. Any ascii string is also a valid utf-8 string (and latin-1, and many other encodings), but the opposite is not true. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
