Message 199184 - Python tracker

Message199184

Author	pitrou
Recipients	ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, kennyluck, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tchrist, vstinner
Date	2013-10-08.09:03:35
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> On 08.10.2013 10:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > utf-16 isn't that widely used, so it's probably fine if it becomes > > a bit slower. > > It's the default encoding for Unicode text files and APIs on Windows, > so I'd say it is widely used :-) I've never seen any UTF-16 text files. Do you have other data? APIs are irrelevant. You only pass very small strings to then (e.g. file paths).

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> On 08.10.2013 10:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > 
> > utf-16 isn't that widely used, so it's probably fine if it becomes
> > a bit slower.
> 
> It's the default encoding for Unicode text files and APIs on Windows,
> so I'd say it *is* widely used :-)

I've never seen any UTF-16 text files. Do you have other data?

APIs are irrelevant. You only pass very small strings to then (e.g.
file paths).

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