Laura Creighton wrote: > The idea that the whole world loves utf-8 is nonsense.
I don't think anyone says the whole world loves UTF-8. I think people say that the whole world *ought to* love UTF-8, and that legacy encodings from the Windows "code-page" days ought to die. > Most of europe has been using latin1, latin2 etc. before > unicode was invented and will, as far as I know, continue to use it. And this is why people in Greece cannot transfer text files to people in France without the content changing (ISO-8859-7 vs ISO-8859-1). And why Russians cannot even swap text files with other Russians (a plethora of encodings). :-( -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list