<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:40, Curt Hagenlocher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curt@hagenlocher.org">curt@hagenlocher.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>IronPython will inherit whatever behavior Mono has implemented. The<br>
Microsoft CLR defines the native string type as UTF-16 and all of the<br>
managed APIs for things like file names and environmental variables<br>
operate on UTF-16 strings -- there simply are no byte string APIs.</blockquote><div><br>Yes. Now think about the implications. This means that adopting PEP 383 will make IronPython and Jython running on UNIX intrinsically incompatible with CPython running on UNIX, and there's no way to fix that. <br>
<br>Tom<br></div></div>