From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T04:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?


On 21-jun-2006, at 18:20, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
>     on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:41:02 +0900, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov  
> <listbox@julik.nl> writes:
>
> |Matz, this would be a disaster (if in such a situation a library
> |throws). It's gonna be like python.
> |Because it means that 99 percent of the libraries will throw.
>
> Can you elaborate?  I don't want to see disaster whatever it is.

I imagine that in the case mentioned the encoding assumed for a  
library will depend on the pragma in the source.

Fr instance, I am writing a program that needs to work wuth UTF8  
data, but one of the libraries I am using has ASCII in the pragma.
What is going to haveppen if I ship this library UTF8 strings? Python  
libraries just throw, because they do all kinds of no-unicode aware  
operations on strings
or request Unicode strings explicitly. So anytime you want to ship  
something to a library (or get something from STDIN) you have to  
decode and encode.
As soon as you forget to, you get exceptions everywhere.

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