On 07/14/2017 08:05 AM, Rhodri James wrote: > On 14/07/17 14:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Of course, UTF-8 in a bytes object doesn't make the situation any >> better, but does it make it any worse? > > Speaking as someone who has been up to his elbows in this recently, I > would say emphatically that it does make things worse. It adds an extra > layer of complexity to all of the questions you were asking, and more. > A single codepoint is a meaningful thing, even if its meaning may be > modified by combining. A single byte may or may not be meaningful.
Are you saying that dealing with Unicode in Google Go, which uses UTF-8 in memory, is adding an extra layer of complexity and makes things worse than they might be in Python? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
