unicode encoding usablilty problem

[Thomas Heller]

=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> We have come up with a transition strategy, allowing existing
> libraries to widen their support from byte strings to character
> strings. This isn't a simple task, so many libraries still expect
> and return byte strings, when they should process character strings.
> Instead of breaking the libraries right away, we have defined
> a transitional mechanism, which allows to add Unicode support
> to libraries as the need arises. This transition is still in
> progress.
>
> Eventually, the primary string type should be the Unicode
> string. If you are curious how far we are still off that goal,
> just try running your program with the -U option.

Is it possible to specify a byte string literal when running with the -U option?

Thomas