Feb. 9, 2012
6:55 a.m.
2012/2/9 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
I think there's a general expectation that if you encode something with one codec you will be able to decode it with the same codec. That's not necessarily true for the locale encoding.
As And pointed out, this is already the behaviour of the "mbcs" codec under Windows. "locale" would be the moral (*) equivalent of that under Unix.
With the difference that mbcs cannot change during execution. I don't even know if it is possible to change it at all, except by reinstalling Windows. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc