Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Martin v. Loewis]

Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> writes:

> I can provide any number of people who consider, as a matter of
> principal, that it is _always_ better to make it part of the
> library and not part of the language.  Some of these people will
> also argue that it is bad to provide users with options.  This is
> the 'lean and elegant' school of language design, and they are
> extrmely consistent in liking tiny languages with large libraries.

On this specific question (source encodings): which of those people
specifically would favour Stephen's approach (which, I must admit, I
have not fully understood, since I don't know how he wants the hooks
to be invoked).

Regards,
Martin