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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Dec 7 02:12:47 CET 2008


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

If the binary APIs are missing from a major platform (i.e. Windows) then the choice to use them brings with it a major cross-platform portability problem that should really be handled by the standard library.

+1

I might also add that providing binary APIs does not prevent us to implement some special representation of broken filenames when using the unicode APIs (for example using private Unicode characters - I'm not sure what the right terminology is - as sometimes suggested).

Regards

Antoine.



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