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[M.-A. Lemburg]

James Y Knight wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2006, at 3:15 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Note that it also helps setting the default encoding
>> to 'unknown'. That way you disable the coercion of strings
>> to Unicode and all the places where this implicit conversion
>> takes place crop up, allowing you to take proper action (i.e.
>> explicit conversion or changing of the string to Unicode
>> as appropriate).
> 
> I've tried that before to verify no such conversion issues occurred in
> Twisted, but, as the python stdlib isn't usable like that, it's hard to
> use it to find bugs in any other libraries. (in particular, the re
> module is badly broken, some other stuff was too).

True: it breaks a lot of code that was written to work
with both strings and Unicode (or does so by accident ;-).

The stdlib isn't too well prepared for Unicode yet, so
if your code relies a lot on it, then the above may not
be the right strategy for you.

Perhaps a new ASCII codec that issues warnings for all these
cases would help ?! (one that still converts to Unicode
assuming ASCII, but issues a warning pointing to the location
in the code where the conversion happend)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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