[Python-Dev] #pragmas in Python source code

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> My vote is all or nothing. Either the whole file is in UCS-2 (for
> example) or none of it is.

agreed.

> In what sense is Latin-1 not Unicode? Isn't it just the first 256
> characters of Unicode or something like that?

yes.  ISO Latin-1 is unicode.  what MAL really meant was that
the interpreter would only deal with 8-bit (traditional) or 16-bit
(unicode) strings.

(in my string type proposals, the same applies to text strings
manipulated by the user.  if it's not unicode, it's a byte array,
and methods expecting text don't work)

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