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

Robert Collins robert.collins at canonical.com
Tue Apr 28 07:39:01 CEST 2009

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 22:25 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:

Indeed, that was the missing piece. I'd forgotten about the encodings that use escape sequences, rather than UTF-8, and DBCS. I don't think those encodings are permitted by POSIX file systems, but I suppose they could sneak in via Environment variable values, and the like.

This may already have been discussed, and if so I apologise for the for the noise.

Does the PEP take into consideration the normalising behaviour of Mac OSX ? We've had some ongoing challenges in bzr related to this with bzr.

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