"Martin v. Löwis" writes: > > 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".
I realize this is not useful, so maybe you don't need to mention it. However, it certainly is possible to set LANG with an absurd, or merely dangerous, encoding. > 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. Which is your excuse for not supporting Shift JIS fully. It doesn't stop people from setting LC_ALL=ja_JP.shift_jis, or using Shift JIS as the default encoding for certain media. _______________________________________________ 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
