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

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 10:21:01 CET 2008


On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Hagen Fürstenau <hfuerstenau at gmx.net> wrote:

If the Unicode APIs only have correct unicode, sure. If not you'll get errors translating to UTF-8 (and the byte APIs are supposed to pass bad names through unaltered.) Kinda ironic, no? As far as I can see all Python Unicode strings can be encoded to UTF-8, even things like lone surrogates because Python doesn't care about them. So both the Unicode API and the binary API would be fail-safe on Windows.

Python is broken and needs to be fixed.

http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 http://bugs.python.org/issue3297

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus



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