On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Hagen Fürstenau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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? > > As far as I can see all Python Unicode strings can be encoded to UTF-8, > even things like lone surrogates because Python doesn't care about them. > So both the Unicode API and the binary API would be fail-safe on Windows.
Python is broken and needs to be fixed. http://bugs.python.org/issue3672 http://bugs.python.org/issue3297 -- 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
