Report from the Python Language Summit

Posted Apr 15, 2015 15:01 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Report from the Python Language Summit by jezuch
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit

> Frankly, this usefulness is rather obvious to anyone living in non-ASCII world. When you are using ą, ę, ź, ć, etc. daily (and it's still just a variant of the Latin script), you learn pretty quickly about character encodings.

It's even more useful when diacritics are rare. If you use diacritics all the time, encode/decode bugs are found quickly. If you don't, encode/decode bugs will remain hidden, until one day they blow up as one of the dreaded Unicode encode/decode exceptions (or worse, show up as mojibake).