[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sat Dec 6 15:43:12 CET 2008
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 02:22:29AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
And environment variables, command line arguments, and file names are not bytes, but characters.
"There is no such thing as plain text!" If you say "these are characters" you must also name the encoding for them. LANG/LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE provide a sensible default, but if a program has problems decoding bytes to characters there must be a way for the user to override the default. But the user must be notified about the error, so programs must not silently filters out non-decodable characters.
Oleg.
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