[Python-checkins] r75001 - python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/howto/unicode.rst

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:10:25AM -0400, Jim Jewett wrote:
> I think this was the wrong fix; the point was to show that some
> encodings aren't "complete".  ASCII wasn't, but I think UTF-8 actually
> is.
> 
> Maybe change from
> 
> >  Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and most
> to:
> 
> Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and
> most encodings don't.  Most notably, the 'ASCII' encoding doesn't.
> (Python's default encoding has been changed to 'UTF-8', which does
> handle all valid Unicode characters.)

+1 on this change in wording.  No need for ()s IMO.

I was curious to know why it was previous sentence was  removed than
mentioning that the default encoding has changed from ascii to UTF-8.


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Senthil
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