Py 3.3, unicode / upper()

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I've been able to discern, [jmf's] actual complaint about PEP
> 393 stems from misguided moral concerns.  With PEP-393, strings that
> can be fully represented in Latin-1 can be stored in half the space
> (ignoring fixed overhead) compared to strings containing at least one
> non-Latin-1 character.  jmf thinks this optimization is unfair to
> non-English users and immoral; he wants Latin-1 strings to be treated
> exactly like non-Latin-1 strings (I don't think he actually cares
> about non-BMP strings at all; if narrow-build Unicode is good enough
> for him, then it must be good enough for everybody).

Not entirely; most of his complaints are based on performance (speed
and/or memory) of 3.3 compared to a narrow build of 3.2, using silly
edge cases to prove how much worse 3.3 is, while utterly ignoring the
fact that, in those self-same edge cases, 3.2 is buggy.

ChrisA