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[Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13.12.2011 07:26, Robert Collins wrote:

> We could say 'utf8' and leave it at that. Or we could say 'the
> printable subset of ascii' or some such. I'd just say non whitespace
> utf8, as strings are easier to deal with, and avoiding whitespace
> avoids most likely encoding issues.

No arbitrary utf8/utf16 or anything non-ASCII please, or we may have
funny things like the attached script.

Abel

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

a = u'Launchpad odd variants'
b = u'Lаunchpad odd variants'
c = u'Launchpad odd νariants'
d = u'Launchpad οdd variants'

print a == b
print a == c
print a == d
print b == c
print b == d
print c == d