[Python-Dev] Unicode, again

[Martin v. Loewis]

aahz@rahul.net (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> Being someone who knows little about Unicode and being something of a
> 7-bit ASCII snob, could someone clarify for me whether the UTF-8
> proposal would cause any difficulty with a pure-ASCII file?  Or would I
> have to give up the vi-compatible mode of vim?

UTF-8 is an "ASCII superset" in the sense that a UTF-8 text consisting
only of ASCII characters is byte-for-byte identical to the same text,
encoded in ASCII.

Regards,
Martin