[Python-Dev] unicodeobject.c,2.139,2.140 checkin (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
26 Apr 2002 19:16:32 +0200

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

> In the long run, I think that the Unicode type should be > used for all text data and strings for binary data of unknown > encoding.

I think you're underestimating the tenacity of ASCII and Latin-1.

I agree with MAL: the run will just be very long.

Regards, Martin