[Python-Dev] Unicode, again
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake@acm.org
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:29:20 -0500
Aahz Maruch writes:
> Being someone who knows little about Unicode and being something of a
> 7-bit ASCII snob, could someone clarify for me whether the UTF-8
> proposal would cause any difficulty with a pure-ASCII file? Or would I
> have to give up the vi-compatible mode of vim?
Pure 7-bit ASCII is good as UTF-8; there may be some quirks with
control characters, but I'm not aware of anything specific. The
difference between ASCII and UTF-9 starts at the 8th bit, so pure
ASCII (not Latin-1) should be quite happy in a UTF-8 world.
-Fred
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