STINNER Victor added the comment:
Close this issue: PEP 383 is specific to filesystem using bytes, it is useless
on Windows (the problem on Windows is on encoding, not on decoding).
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resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
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STINNER Victor added the comment:
Oh wait. PEP 383 is a solution to store undecodable bytes in an unicode string,
but for mbcs I'm trying to get the opposite: store unicode in bytes and this is
not possible (at least with PEP 383).
Example with Python 3.1:
>>> print("abcŁdef".encode("cp1252"
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:
STINNER Victor wrote:
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> New submission from STINNER Victor :
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> It would be nice to support PEP 383 (surrogateescape) on Windows, but the
> mbcs codec doesn't support it for performance reason. The Windows functions
> to encode/decode MBCS don't give
New submission from STINNER Victor :
It would be nice to support PEP 383 (surrogateescape) on Windows, but the mbcs
codec doesn't support it for performance reason. The Windows functions to
encode/decode MBCS don't give the index of the unencodable/undecodable
character/byte. For encoding, we
