On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Tangent: This is not true about Linux. UTF-8 is a matter of the > interpretation of the filesystem bytes that the user specifies by setting > their system locale. Setting system locale to ASCII for use in system-wide > scripts, is quite common as is changing locale settings in other parts of > the world (as I can tell you from the bug reports colleagues CC me on to fix > for the problems with unicode support in their python2 programs).
Fortunately, there's been some (slow) movement towards adding a "C.UTF-8" locale and using that by default where "C" (ASCII) is currently used. So that may be less of a problem in a few years time. James _______________________________________________ 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
