Language design
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Sep 11 19:16:29 EDT 2013
Wayne Werner <wayne at waynewerner.com> writes:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The sooner we replace the erroneous
> > “text is ASCII” in the common wisdom with “text is Unicode”, the
> > better.
>
> I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with
> "text is binary data, and we should normally look at that text through
> Unicode eyes". A little less catchy, but more accurate ;)
No, that's inaccurate. A sequence of bytes is binary data. Unicode is
not binary data.
There are encodings which map Unicode to a sequence of bytes, but text is
not binary data.
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