[Python-Dev] a suggestion ... Re: PEP 383 (again) (original) (raw)

Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org
Thu Apr 30 05:40:07 CEST 2009

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Thomas Breuel <tmbdev at gmail.com> wrote:

Also, what are Jython and IronPython supposed to do on UNIX?  Can they implement these semantics at all?

IronPython will inherit whatever behavior Mono has implemented. The Microsoft CLR defines the native string type as UTF-16 and all of the managed APIs for things like file names and environmental variables operate on UTF-16 strings -- there simply are no byte string APIs.

I assume that Mono does the same but I don't have any Mono experience.

-- Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org

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