On 2014-06-06 09:59, Travis Griggs wrote: > On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > > If you use UTF-8 for everything > > It seems to me, that increasingly other libraries (C, etc), use > utf8 as the preferred string interchange format.
I definitely advocate UTF-8 for any streaming scenario, as you're iterating unidirectionally over the data anyways, so why use/transmit more bytes than needed. The only failing of UTF-8 that I've found in the real world(*) is when you have to requirement of constant-time indexing into strings. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list