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On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> =
wrote:

> If you use UTF-8 for everything

It seems to me, that increasingly other libraries (C, etc), use utf8 as =
the preferred string interchange format. It=92s universal, not prone to =
endian issues, etc. So one *advantage* you gain for using utf8 =
internally, is any time you need to hand a string to an external thing, =
it=92s just ready. An app that reserves its internal string processing =
to streaming based ones but has to to hand strings to external libraries =
a lot (e.g. cairo) might actually benefit using utf8 internally, because =
a) it=92s not doing the linear search for the odd character address and =
b) it no longer needs to decode/encode every time it sends or receives a =
string to an external library.