On Aug 18, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:07:05 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > > Is there any reason why non ascii users are somehow penalized compared > > to ascii users? > > Of course there is a reason. > > If you want to represent 1114111 different characters in a string, as > Unicode supports, you can't use a single byte per character, or even two > bytes. That is a fact of basic mathematics. Supporting 1114111 characters > must be more expensive than supporting 128 of them. > > But why should you carry the cost of 4-bytes per character just because > someday you *might* need a non-BMP character?
I am reminded of: http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605 Original above does not open for me but here's a copy that does: http://onceuponatimeinindia.blogspot.in/2009/07/hard-drive-weight-increasing.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
