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Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP292:SimpleString Substitutions

[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP292:SimpleString Substitutions [Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP292:SimpleString SubstitutionsFredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Sep 14 10:33:03 CEST 2004
Terry Reedy wrote:

>> usually shorter in languages with many ideographs (my non-scientific
>> tests indicate that chinese text uses about 4 times less symbols than
>> english; I'm sure someone can dig up better figures).
>
> This is why I am not especially enamored of Unicode and the prospect of Python becoming married to 
> it.  It is heavily weighted in favor of efficiently representing Chinese and inefficiently 
> representing English.

Don't confuse Unicode with its UCS-2 and UCS-4 encodings.  On a conceptual
level, good old 7-bit ASCII and 8-bit ISO-Latin-1 are both Unicode.

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