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Re:The Python Unicode Mess by jschwartzi on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:44PM (#18158221)
I think it is more eloquently stated that "you shouldn't make assumptions about what's inside." Saying "you can't see what's inside" ignores the biggest cause of the conflation. Userspace tools allow you to trivially interpret the bag of bytes as a text string for the purpose of naming it for other people.
Re:The Python Unicode Mess by steveklabnik on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:14PM (#18158339)
Yeah, that might be better, good point.