On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > André Malo wrote: >>> While on Windows: >>> - underlying OS API uses Unicode >>> - Unicode API just passes values straight through >>> - binary API uses the system encoding to decode bytes names and values >>> to be passed to the OS API and to encode Unicode names and values >>> received from the OS API >> >> Now that is somewhat strange. That way you'll have two unreliable APIs and >> need to switch depending on the platform again. > > Sory, system encoding was probably a poor choice of words there, since > that generally means mbcs when talking about windows (which would indeed > be a very poor choice of encoding). > > For binary wrappers around the Windows Unicode APIs, I was thinking > specifically of using UTF-8, since that should be able to encode > anything the Unicode APIs can handle.
If the Unicode APIs only have correct unicode, sure. If not you'll get errors translating to UTF-8 (and the byte APIs are supposed to pass bad names through unaltered.) Kinda ironic, no? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
