Re: question about Unicode

[Sébastien Boisgérault <Sebastien.Boisgerault@...>]

Philippe Lhoste a écrit :

> Adrian Perez a écrit :
>
> > (Yes, I checked this even in recent Linux/BSD and older Solaris
> > systems, at it still works, the same goes for most text utils... but
> > don't expect character ranges in regexps like '[あ-う]' to work,
> > because most apps assume one byte per glyph).
>
>
> I expect that apps making correct use of good RE libraries like PCRE 
> (compiled with UTF-8 support) should be OK with the above. I never 
> tried this...
>
> > Just my two cents. I would really appreciate Unicode support in Lua. I
> > vote for enforcing UTF-8 as encoding for source files. Python is a
> > somewhat hackish: it tries to detect encoding by using a special comment
> > on the first 5 lines of code like '# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-'. It works
> > but I think it's quite awkward...
>
>
> No more awkward than shbang or XML way...
> I am not a fan of enforcing an encoding scheme.
Moreover, the "Emacs style" is not mandatory to define
encoding in Python source files. The simpler syntax:

# coding: utf-8

works as well. See the following PEP for details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

SB