> That is not a concern. However, it is fundamentally the wrong thing to > do. Most people rightfully view command line arguments and file names > as strings, as they use the keyboard to enter them, and the computer > uses letters from a font to display them. They are not bytes > conceptually - they are strings in a potentially unknown encoding.
Are you sure that "strings in an unknown encoding" are conceptually strings and not rather bytes? And what if we skillfully conserve unknown bytes in a private use or surrogate area and the application author actually knows the encoding and wants correctly decoded strings? - Hagen -- http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hagenf/ PGP fingerprint: C8EF 458E 5531 14AA 42BC AA1C 36AE D91D BA94 7D32 _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
