Nick Coghlan writes: > True, but it's still a fairly important problem to have a solution to. > Even internally in large organisations there can be some pretty insane > environments as cruft accumulates over the years.
M&A and globalization makes it inevitable. Toshio will remember the Mizuho April Fool's Day fiasco (a couple of large banks merged, and when they reopened as a merged entity called "Mizuho", the ATM system immediately crashed). Japan being a country that doesn't believe in GAAP, such mergers are a very difficult problem. I don't know the details, but I wouldn't even be surprised if encodings played a role in that mess because Japanese companies often have their own internal variants of the national standard JIS encoding. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
