From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T08:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hi,

In message "Re: Unicode roadmap?"
    on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:33:36 +0900, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

|I'm not sure I like the encoding pragma, personally, since it's at the
|file level. Consider this:
|
|  raise "Not PNG." unless @top[0, 8] == "\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a"
|
|If I understand the encoding pragma correctly, both the "Not PNG" and
|the matching string will be treated as Unicode, and the test string is
|not valid Unicode.
|
|Better, from my perspective:
|
|  raise u"Not PNG." unless @top[0, 8] == "\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a"
|
|That way, I *mark* the strings for which I want Unicode format. The
|encoding pragma makes it hard to do mixed content files.

I'd rather see r"\x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a" (or b"..."), since I expect
binary strings less often.  It also removes unnecessary Unicode
expectation from users.

							matz.