Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and
most encodings don't. For example, Python's default encoding is the
'ascii' encoding. The rules for converting a Unicode string into the
-ASCII encoding are are simple; for each code point:
+ASCII encoding are simple; for each code point:
1. If the code point is <128, each byte is the same as the value of the
code point.
Thanks to the following people who have noted errors or offered
suggestions on this article: Nicholas Bastin,
Marius Gedminas, Kent Johnson, Ken Krugler,
-Marc-André Lemburg, Martin von Löwis.
+Marc-André Lemburg, Martin von Löwis, Chad Whitacre.
Version 1.0: posted August 5 2005.