PEP263 (Specifying encoding) and bytecode strings

[Alex Martelli]

Tony Meyer wrote:

>> No.  The A in ASCII stands for "American" (the rest of the
>> letters stand for "Standard Code for Information
>> Interchange).
> 
> Well, being American doesn't mean that accents aren't allowed.  Granted,
> they've managed English a bit, but not that much.

I think that favouring one foreign tongue (i.e. equivalently the
tongue of just one subset of immigrant residents and citizens)
over others would be considered a very un-American thing to do.
As there is no way to cover more than a small subset of tongues
using various kinds of "accents" within a one-byte character set,
foregoing them all equally seems fairest.


>> I suspect (but cannot be sure) that ISO 8859-1 is the
>> encoding you want to use for your purposes.
> 
> Thanks for that.  Looking at the description, it does seem like it.

It may be, yes.


> Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

You're welcome!


Alex