On Saturday 04 December 2010 09:31:04 you wrote: > Alexander Belopolsky writes: > > In fact, once the language moratorium is over, I will argue that > > str.encode() and byte.decode() should deprecate encoding argument and > > just do UTF-8 encoding/decoding. Hopefully by that time most people > > will forget that other encodings exist. (I can dream, right?) > > It's just a dream. There's a pile of archival material, often on R/O > media, out there that won't be transcoded any more quickly than the > inscriptions on Tutankhamun's tomb.
Not only, many libraries expect use bytes arguments encoded to a specific encoding (eg. locale encoding). Said differenlty, only few libraries written in C accept wchar* strings. The Linux kernel (or many, or all, UNIX/BSD kernels) only manipulate byte strings. The libc only accept wide characters for a few operations. I don't know how to open a file with an unicode path with the Linux libc: you have to encode it... Alexander: you should first patch all UNIX/BSD kernels to use unicode everywhere, then patch all libc implementations, and then all libraries (written in C). After that, you can have a break. Victor _______________________________________________ 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
