On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Andrew Clover wrote: > OTOH making the dictionaries reflect the underlying OS's conception of > environment variables means users of os.environ and WSGI will have > to be > able to cope with both bytes and unicode, which would also be a big > annoyance. > > In summary: urgh, this is all messy and 'orrible.
I suppose this is more a question for python-dev, but, it'd be really nice if Python on Windows made it look like the windows system encoding was always UTF-8. That is, bytestrings used for open/ os.environ/argv/etc. are always encoded/decoded in utf-8, not the broken-platform-encoding. Then the same code would work just as well on unix as it does on windows. Actually, I bet I could implement that today, just by wrapping some stuff....hmmm... James _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
