Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > On 08.10.2013 10:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > utf-16 isn't that widely used, so it's probably fine if it becomes > > a bit slower. > > It's the default encoding for Unicode text files and APIs on Windows, > so I'd say it *is* widely used :-)
I've never seen any UTF-16 text files. Do you have other data? APIs are irrelevant. You only pass very small strings to then (e.g. file paths). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12892> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
