[I18n-sig] Re: Pre-PEP: Proposed Python Character Model

[Martin v. Loewis]

> > However, matter-of-factually, you propose that ISO-8859-1 is the
> > default encoding, as this is the encoding that is used when converting
> > character strings to char* in the C API. I'd certainly call it a
> > default.
> 
> It's not an encoding.  It's the subset of Unicode that you can store
> in an 8-bit character.

No, it is not *the* subset of Unicode that you can store in an 8-bit
character. You can store any subset of Unicode with a cardinality <256
in a single octet.

Latin-1 is group 0, plane 0, row 0. Why is it any better than any
other plane or row?

Regards,
Martin