[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Apr 24 17:53:53 CEST 2009


James Y Knight writes:

It's unfortunately the case that this isn't precisely true. Windows
uses arbitrary 16-bit sequences, just as unix uses arbitrary 8-bit
sequences.

Including U+FFFE and U+FFFF "not a character nowhere nohow"? Just when I was thinking Microsoft would actually nail one....



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