[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Python Character Model

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neil Hodgson wrote:
>    Matz: "We don't believe there can be any single characer-encoding that
> encompasses all the world's languages.  We want to handle multiple encodings
> at the same time (if you want to)."

neither does the unicode designers, of course: the point
is that unicode only deals with glyphs, not languages.

most existing japanese encodings also include language info,
and if you don't understand the difference, it's easy to think
that unicode sucks...

I'd say we need support for *languages*, not more internal
encodings.

Cheers /F