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- Subject: Re: Clearing up misconceptions about characters vs bytes in the manual
- From: "Gunnar Zötl" <gz@...>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 15:58:08 +0100 (CET)
> Would it be a good idea to make a distinction between characters and
> bytes, or do you guys feel that this is already clear in the manual
> (and PiL)?
The manual is very clear on this. Section 6.4 in the 5.2 manual, 5.4 in the 5.1
manual, third sentence, states:
The string library assumes one-byte character encodings.
Gunnar
