To unicode or not to unicode
Benjamin Peterson
benjamin at python.org
Thu Feb 19 22:21:57 EST 2009
Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon <at> flownet.com> writes:
>
> I'm writing a little wiki that I call µWiki. That's a lowercase Greek
> mu at the beginning (it's pronounced micro-wiki). It's working, except
> that I can't actually enter the name of the wiki into the wiki itself
> because the default unicode encoding on my Python installation is
> "ascii". So I'm trying to decide on a course of action. There seem to
> be three possibilities:
You should never have to rely on the default encoding. You should explicitly
decode and encode data.
>
> 1. Change the code to properly support unicode. Preliminary
> investigations indicate that this is going to be a colossal pain in the
> ass.
Properly handling unicode may be painful at first, but it will surely pay off in
the future.
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