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

[Shane Hathaway]

sathya wrote:
> Just want to throw out this question:
> unicode strings may use 16 or 32 bit UTF encoding
> regular strings use 7 bit ascii
> what is this 8 bit ascii that is being talked about ?

I don't think anyone meant to refer to 8-bit ASCII (which was one 
attempt to add some international characters to the standard character 
set, AFAIK.)  When I refer to 8 bits, I'm usually talking about the 
storage of 7 bits in 8-bit bytes.

Shane