Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I repeat myself. Even with the patch, UTF-16 codec is faster than UTF-8 codec (except ASCII-only data). This is fastest Unicode codec in Python (perhaps UTF-32 can be made faster, but this is another issue).
> The real question is: Can the UTF-16/32 codecs be made fast > while still detecting lone surrogates ? Not whether UTF-16 > is widely used or not. Yes, they can. But let defer this to other issues. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
