Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > Under that standard definition, UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable-width, > and UTF-32 is fixed-width. > > But I'll accept that UTF-32 is variable-width if Marko accepts that > ASCII is too.
If that makes you happy, fine. The point is, UTF-32 has no advantages over UTF-8. And I'm referring to the text abstraction as seen by the programmer. It has nothing to do with the layout of bytes inside CPython. I use UTF-8 in my C programs and sense no disadvantage. I have never felt a need for wchar_t. Similarly, I had a small Python2 program that quizzed me about Hebrew vocabulary with Finnish translations and Esperanto pronunciation instructions. All UTF-8. No unicode strings. (I *have* converted that to Python3 just to be on the bleeding edge, but it didn't give me any advantages over Python2.) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
