Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)
by chubot on Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:16PM
(#11934709)
Yeah, I didn't really understand this until I heard Go/Plan 9 guys ranting about this. In other words, char* IS unicode if you use utf-8. Otherwise you need wchar_t and all that junk.
I think Python got unicode in the same era as Java, so it's understandable that Python 2 doesn't work like this. But if they are going to break the whole world for unicode, I also think it would have been better to do something like Go does (e.g. the rune library).
I think Python got unicode in the same era as Java, so it's understandable that Python 2 doesn't work like this. But if they are going to break the whole world for unicode, I also think it would have been better to do something like Go does (e.g. the rune library).