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

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 07:26:46 CET 2008


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

I doubt that UTF-16 is used very much (other than on windows). There's this other obscure platform called "Java"... ;)

Sorry, I should have said "for interchange". :)

(CPython doesn't use UTF-8 internally either. It uses UTF-16 or UTF-32.)

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus



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