>If the alternative is to not be able to treat text as byte strings - then I don't think I like it.

well. text is not a byte-string. that's the truth. if you like it or not )

why do you want to treat text as a byte-string?

what string methods/functions make sense to use on a byte-array?
gabor | 05/08/03 - 12:53 pm | #

I know this is an important topic.

I feel like not touching it with a 100 feet pole (putting on my asbest suit now).

Actually I wish everything and everybody could just agree on a standard about this like 50 years ago, and I wouldn't need to worry about it now. Heck I wouldn't even notice it now.

Computers are as broken and flawed as they where 50 years ago. It's times like this when I feel ashamed to belong to the programmers tribe.
Florian B�sch | Homepage | 05/08/03 - 4:34 pm | #

Doesn't Jython solve the Python Unicode problem already, since it is implemented in Java where all strings are Unicode?
Rob Smallshire | Homepage | 05/08/03 - 9:36 pm | #