Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jan 13 01:08:46 CET 2014

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Glenn Linderman writes:

 > the proposals to embed binary in Unicode by abusing Latin-1
 > encoding.

Those aren't "proposals", they are currently feasible techniques in
Python 3 for *some* use cases.

The question is why infecting Python 3 with the byte/character
confoundance virus is preferable to such techniques, especially if
their (serious!) deficiencies are removed by creating a new type such
as asciistr.

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