Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 15 01:51:46 EDT 2016

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Franklin? Lee wrote:
> If the string only has code points in range(128), encoding is optional
> (and useless anyway).

No, it's not useless. It's possible to have an encoding
that takes code points in the range 0-127 to something
other than their ASCII equivalents. UTF-16, for example.

You're effectively suggesting that ASCII or Latin-1
should be assumed as a default encoding, which seems like
a bad idea.

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Greg

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