[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 24 19:16:29 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 25 août 2011 à 02:15 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :

Antoine Pitrou writes: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:34:17 +0900 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote: > > > > Martin has long claimed that the fact that I/O is done in terms of > > UTF-16 means that the internal representation is UTF-16 > > Which I/O?

Eg, display of characters in the interpreter.

I don't know why you say it's "done in terms of UTF-16", then. Unicode strings are simply encoded to whatever character set is detected as the terminal's character set.

Regards

Antoine.

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