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

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 08:16:38 CET 2008

Adam Olsen wrote:

A half-broken setup is still a broken setup. Eventually you have to tell people to stop screwing around and pick one encoding. But it's not a broken setup. It's the way the world is because people share things with each other.

I doubt that UTF-16 is used very much (other than on windows). I haven't found any statistics on what distros use, but did find this one of the web itself: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html UTF-16 is popular in Asian locales for the same reason that shift-js and big-5 are hanging in there. utf-8 takes many more bytes to encode Asian Unicode characters than utf-16.

-Toshio

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