[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Chris Withers]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > Ideally it should be 'string', 'sequence', 'mapping' and 'number', but
> > > as I just explained in python-dev the 'string' name is already taken. :-(
> >
> > Would anything really bad happen if you changed the meaning of that string?
> >
> > You could then have:
> >
> > string
> >  |
> >  |------unicode
> >  |
> >  |------ascii

hang on, I'm being silly, what I meant was changing the meaning of StringType,
not string:

StringType
|
|------UnicodeType
|
|------AsciiType

would this work or am I missing something big (which I fear I am...)

Chris