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Author lemburg
Recipients ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, lemburg, mrabarnett, pitrou
Date 2009-05-05.08:31:25
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On 2009-05-04 19:04, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment:
> 
> So, do you also think "utf" and "latin" should stay?

For Python 3.x, I think those can be removed. For 2.x it's better to
keep them.

Note that UTF-8 was the first official Unicode transfer encoding,
that's why it's sometimes referred to as "UTF".

The situation is similar for Latin-1. It was the first of a series of
encodings defined by ECMA which was later published by ISO under the name
ISO-8859 - long after the name "Latin-1" became popular which is why
it's the default name in Python.
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Date User Action Args
2009-05-05 08:31:27lemburgsetrecipients: + lemburg, georg.brandl, pitrou, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
2009-05-05 08:31:26lemburglinkissue5902 messages
2009-05-05 08:31:25lemburgcreate