New internal string format in 3.3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:19:23 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

> This is precicely the weak point of this flexible representation. It
> uses latin-1 and latin-1 is for most users simply unusable.

That's very funny.

Are you aware that your post is entirely Latin-1?


> Fascinating, isn't it? Devs are developing sophisticed tools based on a
> non working basis.

At the end of the day, PEP 393 fixes some major design limitations of the 
Unicode implementation in the "narrow build" Python, while saving memory 
for people using the "wide build". Everybody wins here. Your objection 
appears to be based on some sort of philosophical objection to Latin-1 
than on any genuine problem.


-- 
Steven