Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.1021223185.21109.python-list at python.org>, Laura
Creighton <lac at strakt.com> writes:

| Write it up and post the question to comp.os.plan9.  These people have
| put unicode into their whole operating system and have been thinking
| about these issues for their languages for more than a decade.

it is a nice system.

on the other hand, utf-8 is ascii compatible and most of the users of
plan 9 are american, so they might not have to address all troublesome
situations right away.

there are major correctness advantages in having strict typing of
"legacy" (1-byte, undefine character set) text versus unicode text.

  -- erno