diferences between 22 and python 23

[Neil Hodgson]

   Ruby 2.0 will probably implement strings with encoding attributes. The
developers want to avoid changing encoding whenever possible. One posting I
saw had joining strings with different encodings as an error although I
don't know if this has been finalised. I doubt whether it will work well, so
I think the best approach for Python is to watch Ruby and if it is
successful then copy. "m17n" is the magic googling term but most of the
available information is encoded in Japanese (EUC).

   Neil