[Python-3000] struni and the Apple four-character-codes (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jul 28 03:19:44 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

We could use Unicode strings where in the past we used 8-bit strings, but that would be somewhat nasty when there's ever one of these codes that's not pure ASCII

Since this is a Mac-specific thing (and Classic-originated at that), I think you can be pretty sure that any non-ASCII value is to be interpreted according to the Macintosh character set, if it's meant to be a character at all.

So I would suggest using the Macintosh encoding when converting these to and from unicode.

-- Greg

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