> It occurs to me that the PEP maybe should say that it is an error > to have your POSIX locale set to UTF-16 or something like that.
No. It is *impossible* to have UTF-16 as the locale character set, not an error. Your statement is like saying "it is an error to breathe in the vacuum". In any case, the discussion says # Encodings that are not compatible with ASCII are not supported by # this specification; bytes in the ASCII range that fail to decode # will cause an exception. It is widely agreed that such encodings # should not be used as locale charsets. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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