On 2 avr, 16:03, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:58:11 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote: > > I'm sure you didn't intend to be insulting, but some of us *have* taken > JMF seriously, at least at first. His repeated overblown claims of how > Python is destroying Unicode ...
Sorrry I never claimed this, I'm just seeing on how Python is becoming less Unicode friendly. > > This feature is a *memory optimization*, not a speed optimization, I totaly agree, and utf-8 is doing that with a great art. (see Neil Hodgson comment). (Do not interpret this as if i'm saying "Python should use utf-8, as I'have read). jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list