--- "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Howell writes:
>
> > respect to Kanji, and switches over to Python,
> and
> > changes his little wrapper shell script to say
> "python
> > -U" instead of "ruby -Kkcode"? He could then
> start to
> > use non-Japanese Python modules while still
> writing
> > his own Python code in Japanese.
>
> But that's not enough. The problem is that the
> reason for -Kkcode is
> that kcode != Unicode. Japanese use several
> mutually incompatible
> encodings, and they mix anarchically over the
> Internet. What -K does
> is allow you to specify which one you're giving to
> the interpreter at
> runtime.
>
> The analogy to -K would be if you get a
> English-language Python source
> file from somewhere, look into it, realize it's from
> IBM, and run it
> with "python -K ebcdic whizbang.py". Same
> characters, only the bytes
> are changed to confuse the innocent. That's what
> -Kkcode is for.
>
I think you misintrepeted my post a bit. I wasn't
suggesting that Python implement a flag that was
exactly equivalent to the -K flag in Ruby. I
understand the arguments that such a flag might be
either unnecessary in Python, or unsatisfactory.
What I was trying to say here is that there might be
precedent for non-ascii users already tolerating
command line arguments.
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