On Aug 17, 2012 2:58 PM, "Dave Angel" <d...@davea.name> wrote: > > The internal coding described in PEP 393 has nothing to do with latin-1 > encoding.
It certainly does. PEP 393 provides for Unicode strings to be represented internally as any of Latin-1, UCS-2, or UCS-4, whichever is smallest and sufficient to contain the data. I understand the complaint to be that while the change is great for strings that happen to fit in Latin-1, it is less efficient than previous versions for strings that do not. I don't know how much merit there is to this claim. It would seem to me that even in non-western locales, most strings are likely to be Latin-1 or even ASCII, e.g. class and attribute and function names.
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