From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T01:44:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:34:27 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

|Just a thought. Might it be possible to have a new String literal for
|what will be, I think, the most common encoding chosen (UTF-8)? That is,
|in addition to:
|
|  # -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
|  "<text>" # tagged as EUC-JP
|
|We allow:
|
|  # -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
|  "<text>" # tagged as EUC-JP
|  u"<text>" # tagged as UTF-8

I am not sure this is a good idea or not (yet).  If your "u" text
contains only ASCII characters, I see no need to tag it "UTF-8", and
if it's not, how do we prepare them?  I think, for example,

   u"\346\235\276\346\234\254" => my family name in Kanji

is too ugly.

							matz.