On 2018-07-15 19:22, James Lee wrote:
On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can stick
their head in the sand and take seriously the position that Latin-1 (let
alone ASCII) is enough for text strings.
Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is not
intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use.
True.
The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of some sort to
turn on/off all I18N features.
To me, Unicode and UTF-8 aren't things to be reserved for I18N. I use
them as a matter of course because I find it a lot easier to stick with
just one encoding, one that will work with _any_ text I have.
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