Lars Knoll (1 November 2019 10:21) > Thanks for the comprehensive mail. Seconded :-)
By effectively joining forces with Python to deprecate ASCII in favour of UTF-8, perhaps we can even put some pressure on POSIX to board the Unicode train. > For your bonus (d) below, I’d say we should print a warning if we > encounter a non UTF-8 locale other than C. On 31 Oct 2019, at 22:11, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: >> Bonus d) should we print a warning when we've made a change? >> >> Options are: >> - yes, for all of them >> - yes, but only for locales other than "C" >> - no I note that [PEP 538] says (on the "C is C-UTF8" part of the subject matter), under Implementation Notes: Attempting to implement the PEP as originally accepted showed that the proposal to emit locale coercion and compatibility warnings by default simply wasn't practical (there were too many cases where previously working code failed because of the warnings, rather than because of latent locale handling defects in the affected code). * [PEP 538] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/ So I cast another vote for >> - yes, but only for locales other than "C" Eddy. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
