[Python-Dev] Unicode Implementation in JPython

[Finn Bock]

[me]
> My feeling on the unicode proposal and its implementation is that most
> of the changes can be integrated directly into JPython without breaking
> any existing JPython code. One thing concerns me though:
> 
>    open("out", "wb").write(u"hello")
>
> This writes a 10 bytes to the file "out". 

[snip]

[Guido van Rossum]
>Hm, I agree that it's not a great feature.  On the other hand it's
>hard to decide what to do instead without breaking other corners of
>the Unicode design.  Could we leave this implementation-dependent?

Absolutely. In fact, that was exactly what I wanted to hear. Thanks.

regards,
finn