On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what Mono does here? Presumably they have the exact same > problem as all strings in .NET are Unicode, and filenames/env vars/etc... > are always strings. > > Maybe if it's gotta be broken at least it can be broken in a manner > that's consistent with others :)
Many of the windows APIs use UTF-16 without validating it. They'll pass through invalid strings until they hit something that does validate, at which point it'll blow up. I suspect that it doesn't happen very often in practice, as having only one encoding makes it quite clear that it's a broken file name, not a mixed encoding environment. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
