[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri May 25 09:10:03 CEST 2007

Steve Howell writes:

respect to Kanji, and switches over to Python, and changes his little wrapper shell script to say "python -U" instead of "ruby -Kkcode"? He could then start to use non-Japanese Python modules while still writing his own Python code in Japanese.

But that's not enough. The problem is that the reason for -Kkcode is that kcode != Unicode. Japanese use several mutually incompatible encodings, and they mix anarchically over the Internet. What -K does is allow you to specify which one you're giving to the interpreter at runtime.

The analogy to -K would be if you get a English-language Python source file from somewhere, look into it, realize it's from IBM, and run it with "python -K ebcdic whizbang.py". Same characters, only the bytes are changed to confuse the innocent. That's what -Kkcode is for.

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