[Python-Dev] The -U flag (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
14 Oct 2002 20:05:57 +0200

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

Yeah, he mailed me first -- I don't understand why his default encoding isn'y Latin-1 though.

He uses an sv_SE.UTF-8 locale, which appears to be the default on Redhat 8, if you ask for a Swedish environment.

IMO, UTF-8 locales will replace everything else on Linux in the long run. Otherwise, system-wide files (and file names) will be restricted to ASCII forever, and people will not accept not having accented and CJK characters in /etc/passwd, for their real names. I expect other Unices to take a similar direction.

Regards, Martin