Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
I don't understand Victor's argument in msg115889. According to UTF-8 RFC, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt>: - US-ASCII values do not appear otherwise in a UTF-8 encoded character stream. This provides compatibility with file systems or other software (e.g. the printf() function in C libraries) that parse based on US-ASCII values but are transparent to other values. This means that printf-like formatters should not care whether the format string is in UTF-8, Latin1, or any other ASCII-compatible 8-bit encoding. (Passing in multibyte encoding pretending to be bytes would of course lead to havoc, but C type system will protect you from that.) It is also fairly simple to ssnity-check for UTF-8 if necessary, but in case of PyUnicode_FromFormat, the resulting string will be decoded as UTF-8, so all characters in the format string will be checked anyways. Am I missing something? ---------- nosy: +belopolsky status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9769> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
