[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Guido van Rossum]

> BTW Java, in spite of its deficiencies, got Unicode right by making
> it the default, and I'm happy to see Python learn from the same
> experience.

Right.

> Have you considered the possibility of adding a __future__ statement
> to make Python create Unicode objects insteads of strings by
> default?  (But for all I know, that could already be done or
> rejected.  Feel free to say so. :-) )

python -U does this.  It even passes most unit tests. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)