[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Fri Dec 5 10:43:10 CET 2008


Le Friday 05 December 2008 00:39:24 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit :

5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented file operations again)

Please, don't do that! Bytes are not characters!

-- Victor Stinner aka haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/



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