CF Bolz-Tereick on Nostr: Seems CPython is considering to switch to a utf-8 only representation for its Unicode ...
Seems CPython is considering to switch to a utf-8 only representation for its Unicode strings:
https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/684(right now it's using an a 1, 2 or 4 bytes for each char in the whole string, depending on the largest code point in a string)
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