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Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Tue Feb 11 00:44:40 EST 2003 
On 10 Feb 2003, Mike Romberg wrote:

>>>>>> " " == Aaron Swartz <me at aaronsw.com> writes:
>
>     > Roman Suzi wrote:
>    >> I've made some summary again (please correct me if I
>    >> misunderstood):
>
>     > I'm fine with the PEP except that it should treat the default
>     > encoding as utf-8, not ascii.
>
>     > The Internet, like the rest of the world, is transitioning to
>     > untagged utf-8 so we don't have to deal with this character set
>     > mess. Python should too.
>
>  I agree.  I'm working on a project which allows users to extend our
>application by writing python scripts.  I fear the reaction we will
>get (and the support nightmare) when we have to tell them they need to
>mark all of their files with a default encoding.  To break old code
>like this, seems like something that would be done in a python 3.x
>type release.  To me it is a major change.  I see nothing wrong with
>allowing the default mentioned above.

Two encodings are mentioned above. Which one is not acceptable to you?

And Guido promised to make default site encoding tweakable by site.py
mechanism.

>Mike Romberg
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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