<div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/9 Antoine Pitrou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net">solipsis@pitrou.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I think there's a general expectation that if you encode something<br>
> with one codec you will be able to decode it with the same codec.<br>
> That's not necessarily true for the locale encoding.<br>
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</div>As And pointed out, this is already the behaviour of the "mbcs" codec<br>
under Windows. "locale" would be the moral (*) equivalent of that under<br>
Unix.</blockquote></div><br>With the difference that mbcs cannot change during execution.<div>I don't even know if it is possible to change it at all, except by reinstalling Windows.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc<br>
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