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Python moratorium and the future of 2.xPython moratorium and the future of 2.xPosted Nov 19, 2009 12:34 UTC (Thu) by yeti-dn (guest, #46560)In reply to: Python moratorium and the future of 2.x by spitzak Parent article: Python moratorium and the future of 2.x
<blockquote>...the easiest way to avoid "errors" is to say the strings are ISO-8859-1</blockquote>
That's the real core of the problem.
The scary myths about broken UTF-8 are very likely being spread by precisely the same people who broke the UTF-8 in the first place because they cannot imagine anything beyond ISO-8859-1.
I live outside US and Western Europe. If I do something as sloppy as treating UTF-8 text as ISO-8859-1 (removing 8bit chars, escaping, whatever) I completely mangle it. So, people don't do it. I meet broken UTF-8 rarely and when I do it invariably comes from the western countries.
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