Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin v Löwis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

    [sjt]
    >> I disagree with some implementation decisions (eg,
    >> the idea of prepending ZERO-WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE to strings
    >> intended to be exported in UTF-16 encoding is just insane IMO

    Martin> That's how UTF-16 is specified.

The Unicode standard permits, but does not require, a BOM.


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