[I18n-sig] Strawman Proposal (2): Encoding attributes (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:10:38 -0800

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:

... Ah, ok. The encoding information will only be applied to literal Unicode strings (u"text"), right ?

No, that's very different than what I am suggesting.

The encoding is applied to the text file. In the initial version, the only place Python would allow Unicode characters is in Unicode literals so currently the only USEFUL place to put those special characters is in Unicode literals. But Python may one day allow Unicode variable names or "simple string literals" and this mechanism will not change its definition or behavior. Only the Python grammar will change.

The interpretation of string literals is a totally separate issue.

Paul Prescod