[I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Mon, 1 May 2000 20:39:52 +0200

Tom Emerson wrote:

Guido van Rossum writes: > OK. I really meant recoding in UTF-8 -- I maintain that there are > lots of forces that prevent recoding most ISO-2022-JP documents in > UTF-8. =20 Such as?

ISO-2022-JP includes language/locale information, UTF-8 doesn't. if you just recode the character codes, you'll lose important information.