On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > People who are asking for help in getting things to work in their > native language need a 'do this quick' sort of answer. The deeper > problems of supporting all languages and language encodings can very > much wait.
I'm not so sure about that. When "supporting all languages" is as simple as "use Python 3 and UTF-8 everywhere", the cost is much lower than it might be, and the benefit is potentially huge. A "do this quick" answer might get you by *right now*, but it leaves open the possibility of subtler errors. That's why Python moved to Unicode-by-default, even though eight-bit encodings will tend to produce the right results for simple text. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
