On 2017-07-14, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > On 14/07/17 15:32, Michael Torrie wrote: >> 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? > > I'm not familiar with Go. If the programmer has to be aware > that the she is using UTF-8 under the hood, then yes, it does > add an extra layer of complexity. You have to remember the > rules of UTF-8 as well as everything else.
Go represents strings as sequences of bytes. It provides separate API's that allow you to regard those bytes as either plain old bytes, or as a sequence of runes (not-necessarily normalized codepoints). If your bytes strings aren't in UTF-8, then Go Away. https://blog.golang.org/strings -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
