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[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit [Python-Dev] Internationalization ToolkitJean-Claude Wippler jcw@equi4.com
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:14:17 +0100
Greg Stein wrote:
[MAL:]
> > The downside of using UTF16: it is a variable length format,
> > so iterations over it will be slower than for UCS4.
> 
> Bzzt. May as well go with UTF-8 as the internal format, much like Perl
> is doing (as I recall).

Ehm, pardon me for asking - what is the brief rationale for selecting
UCS2/4, or whetever it ends up being, over UTF8?

I couldn't find a discussion in the last months of the string SIG, was
this decided upon and frozen long ago?

I'm not trying to re-open a can of worms, just to understand.

-- Jean-Claude



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