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On 1/13/2014 9:03 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Of course, nobody in their right mind would use a format string  
containing UTF-16 or EBCDIC. And that is precisely my point. When  
you're using a format string, all of the format string (not just the  
part between { and }) had better use ASCII or an ASCII superset. And  
this (rightly) constrains the output to an ASCII superset as well.
+1000