Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 27 04:09:58 EST 2002

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"Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> writes:

> Counter-proposal:
> 
>  - Comment syntax: none.
>  - UTF-8 file signature: not supported.
>  - Python source code encoding: must always be UTF-8.
>  - Implementation: within the parser, everything's just
>    ordinary UTF-8 bytes.
>  - IDLE: always save UTF-8 unless otherwise directed.

Do you seriously want to pursue this route? If so, how do you want to
deal with backwards compatibility? Currently, you can put arbitrary
bytes in character strings, and people make use of this opportunity
(even though the documentation says this is undefined).

Will you reject a source module just because it contains a latin-1
comment?

Regards,
Martin

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