On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > I don't know how Java and Python handle Unicode. Java has always been 100% Unicode from the ground up; it's in the spec. The fundamental char type is a 16-bit value, you can use any "letterlike" characters in identifiers, there's an escape sequence to include untypable characters in strings, etc. I/O defaults to UTF-8 but you can arrange for other encodings.
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