On Jan 17, 2:19 pm, carlo <syseng...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > recently I had to study *seriously* Unicode and encodings for one > project in Python but I left with a couple of doubts arised after > reading the unicode chapter of Dive into Python 3 book by Mark > Pilgrim. > > 1- Mark says: > "Also (and you’ll have to trust me on this, because I’m not going to > show you the math), due to the exact nature of the bit twiddling, > there are no byte-ordering issues. A document encoded in UTF-8 uses > the exact same stream of bytes on any computer." . . . > 2- If that were true, can you point me to some documentation about the > math that, as Mark says, demonstrates this?
I believe Mark was referring to the bit-twiddling described in the Design section at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 . Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
