Re: [Chicken-users] UTF-8 support in eggs

[Yaroslav Tsarko]

On 09.07.2014 02:15, Oleg Kolosov wrote:
> IMO just enable utf8 by default and let them break. Is it's not 80's
> anymore, latin1 only software should die.
+ 1.
> For specific use cases (backward compatibility, logging or minimizing
> runtime size for example) it should be possible to disable multi-byte
> encoding handling (i.e. current behaviour) by using compilation option
> or a feature declaration.
+1 again. Let`s remember Python 2.x vs Python 3.x with all that buzz 
regarding Unicode support and
how one should tackle with that depending on Python version.

IMHO should we implement UTF-8 in the core and make it a build option 
(to disable in cases where
it is really, really not required) will give us totally transparent 
support for Unicode to end
users and eggs and eliminate many problems with string processing.

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Thanks,
Yaroslav