On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2015 16:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> I don't think that choosing UCS-2 only is any worse than any other >>> application feature like "support only jpegs, not every obscure image >>> format GIMP supports" or "choose to use floating point maths instead of >>> some numeric type with unlimited precision". You are free to make >>> whatever trade- offs you like, and your users are free to use another >>> application :-) >> >> True, although supporting only one image format can be worked around >> by converting your images. You can't just convert your UCS-4 data into >> UCS-2. > > Of course \u0079\x6f&75; can :-)
That's an encoding, not a conversion :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list