Re: Format strings

El Viernes, 25. Noviembre 2005 23:16, escribi=F3:
> It is correct either way. A byte string is a byte string is a byte
> string is a  string of bytes is not a Unicode string.

That was the second part of my question. If a programmer writes down a stri=
ng, =

and the source file encoding is declared to be utf-8, why then is the strin=
g =

still not encoded in utf-8 by default?
Why all the hassle of using u"..." instead of making it the default?
There is a lot of python source code I maintain, and it would simplify codi=
ng =

a lot if this could be made the default.

Josef