Hi all, My question is: How do you tackle with mixing Unicode and non-Unicode parts of your application?
Context: ======== The PEP 3000 says "Make all strings be Unicode, and have a separate bytes() type." Until then, I am forced to write # -*- coding: cp123456 -*- (see 2.1.4 Encoding declarations) and use... myString = u'text with funny letters' This leads to a source polution that will be difficult to remove later. The idea: ========= What do you think about the following proposal that goes the half way If the Python source file is stored in UTF-8 (or other recognised Unicode file format), then the encoding declaration must reflect the format or can be omitted entirely. In such case, all simple string literals will be treated as unicode string literals. Would this break any existing code? Thanks for your time and experience, pepr -- Petr Prikryl (prikrylp at skil dot cz) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
