On 2018-07-17 01:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > This doesn’t mean that UTF-32 is an awful system, just that it > > isn’t the magical cure that some were hoping for. > > Nobody ever claimed it was, except for the people railing that > since it isn't a magically system we ought to go back to the Good > Old Days of code page hell, or even further back when everyone just > used ASCII.
But even ed(1) on most systems is 8-bit clean so even there you're not limited to ASCII. I can't say I miss code-pages in the least. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list