M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > The whole point in adding Unicode to the language was to make > the difference between text and binary data clear and visible > at the type level. well, when I wrote the Unicode type, the whole point was to be able to make it easy to handle Unicode text. no more, no less. > If we start to store text data in Unicode now and leave binary > data in 8-bit strings, then the move to Unicode strings literals > will be much smoother in P3k. hopefully, the P3K string design will take a lot more into account than text-vs-binary; there are many ways to represent text, and many ways to store binary data, and many usage patterns for them both. a good design should take most of this into account. (google for "stringlib" for some work I'm doing in this area) </F>
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