Paul Prescod writes: > The fact that my proposal has the same effect as making Latin-1 the > "default encoding" is a near-term side effect of the definition of > Unicode. My long term proposal is to do away with the concept of 8-bit > strings (and thus, conversions from 8-bit to Unicode) altogether. One > string to rule them all! Why must this be a long term proposal? I would find it quite attractive, when * the old string type became an imutable list of bytes * automatic conversion between byte lists and unicode strings were performed via user customizable conversion functions (a la __import__). Dieter
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