bytes vs. characters
bytes vs. characters
Posted Apr 17, 2015 18:27 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: bytes vs. characters by david.a.wheeler
Parent article: Report from the Python Language Summit
> For example, often there is no single encoding; many sources are a mishmash of UTF-8 and Windows-1252 and maybe some other stuff in a single file.
"Many"... how many? Sure, it happens every time I throw the random cr*p stored on my hard drive at a quick and dirty script I just hacked together. I think it's a small price to pay for type safety whenever you and I write proper, reliable software.
If you have a source with an hopelessly entangled mix of UTF-8 and Windows-1252, and had the freedom to re-design Python3 (or whatever else), what sensible could you possibly do with it *anyway*? Genuine question.
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