stephen j turnbull xjzvfpwxemacsorg guido van rossum writes complaint would carry weight came someone actually deal issue coming purely theoretical perspective unless im wrong actually read japanese problem experience lot string bugs one bugs inserting utf signatures shouldnt middle string fencepost errors etc stick like sore thumb printed readably theyre hard diagnose im seeing looks like output cat devrandom dont suffer particularly test data ascii even use japanese emacs commands wash portion buffer needed hand japanese second language suppose native might really bothered strings readable without extra effort another issue repr supposed return 8bit string dont think put nonascii characters output encoding put nonascii characters output repr 2x worth effort expand allow iso 88591 anything localespecific right youll buildbots going red across globe doubt either localespecific stuff hard enforce consistency py3k may able something else though instead insisting ascii could allow much larger set characters unescaped yes implications pep 3131 discussions unicode identifiers considered carefully eg consider potential confusing ascii cyrillic im unhappy idea cyrillic uescaped calling repr objects russians program dont like alternative print reprbogus informative print bogus situation better _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 010617 0900 python3000 recursive str