On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 4:28 AM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > > > I'm not defending the choice of wchar_t over UTF-8 (but I can: most of > these systems chose Unicode before UTF-8 was invented and never took the > backwards-incompatible change because they were so popular), but if we > want to pragmatically weigh the needs of our users above our desire for > purity, then we should try and support both equally wherever possible. >
Note that we don't have "utf8 (char*) to Python bytes object" direct encoder API. If PEP 624 is accepted, utf8 and wchar_t* become equal. So please don't think PEP 624 neglect only wchar_t*. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/ZZLY6AFXYEQQ7PI6IXRNU3FWQ23MXPZU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
