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

Henry S. Thompson ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
05 May 2000 09:19:07 +0100

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> I think I hear a moderate consensus developing that the 'ASCII > proposal' is a reasonable compromise given the time constraints. But > let's not fail to come back to this ASAP -- it really narcs me that > every time I load XML into my Python-based editor I'm going to convert > large amounts of wide-string data into UTF-8 just so Tk can convert it > back to wide-strings in order to display it!

Thanks -- but that's really Tcl's fault, since the only way to get character data into Tcl (or out of it) is through the UTF-8 encoding. And is your XML really stored on disk in its 16-bit format?

No, I have no idea what encoding it's in, my XML parser supports over a dozen encodings, and quite sensibly always delivers the content, as per the XML REC, as wide-strings.

ht

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