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

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Wed, 3 May 2000 11:11:26 +0200

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: >=20 > > > So what do you think of my new proposal of using ASCII as the = default > > > "encoding"? =20 How about using unicode-escape or raw-unicode-escape as default encoding ? (They would have to be adapted to disallow Latin-1 char input, though.) =20 The advantage would be that they are compatible with ASCII while still providing loss-less conversion and since they use escape characters, you can even read them using an ASCII based editor.

umm. if you disallow latin-1 characters, how can you call this one loss-less?

looks like political correctness taken to an entirely new level...