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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 29 08:07:10 CEST 2009

I'm more concerned with your (yours? someone else's?) mention of shift characters. I'm unfamiliar with these encodings: to translate such a thing into a Latin example, is it the case that there are schemes with valid encodings that look like:

[SHIFT] a b c which would produce "ABC" in unicode, which is ambiguous with: A B C which would also produce "ABC"?

No: the "shift" in "shift-jis" is not really about the shift key. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-JIS

Regards, Martin

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