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

Michael Urman murman at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 19🔞19 CET 2008

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:35, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 http://bugs.python.org/issue3297 No. Unicode requires them to be treated as errors. If you want to pass them through then you're creating a custom encoding... which you might argue for in this case, but it needs to be clearly separate from the real UTF-8.

I suspect it is a common and convenient but (according to what you say) misconceived expectation that using UTF-8 to encode any Unicode string will not raise an exception. This behavior is not something which should be discarded lightly.

I see little reason that this couldn't be a new codec or error handler that allowed people to choose between correct pure UTF-8 behavior or the technically incorrect but very practical behavior it currently has.

[My apologies, Adam, for sending this only to you the first time]

Michael Urman

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