Tobiah <t...@rcsreg.com> writes: > would be shared? Why can't we just say "unicode is unicode" > and just share files the way ASCII users do. Just have a huge > ASCII style table that everyone sticks to.
I'm not sure that I understand you correctly, but UCS-2 and UCS-4 encodings are that kind of thing. Many people prefer UTF-8 because of convenient backward compatibility with ASCII (and space economy when dealing with mostly-ascii text). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
