[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions). (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Oct 25 20🔞24 CEST 2005


Bill Janssen wrote:

I just got mail this morning from a researcher who wants exactly what Martin described, and wondered why the default MacPython 2.4.2 didn't provide it by default. :-)

If all he wants is to represent Deseret, he can do so in a 16-bit Unicode type, too: Python supports UTF-16.

Regards, Martin



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