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

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Dec 8 05:13:38 CET 2008

Glenn Linderman writes:

But if you are interested in checking for security issues, shouldn't you first decode into some canonical form,

Yes. That's all that is being asked for: that Python do strict decoding to a canonical form by default. That's a lot to ask, as it turns out, but that is what we (the minority of strict Unicode adherents, that is) want.

If you want the convenience and risk, I believe you should ask for it by name (I suggest a name like "own_me" for the relaxed decoding flag). Failing that, it would be nice to have a global flag to change the default.

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