Feb. 9, 2012
6:43 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Simon Cross wrote:
I think I'm -1 on a "locale" encoding because it refers to different actual encodings depending on where and when it's run, which seems surprising
Why is it surprising? Surely that's the whole point of a locale encoding: to use the locale encoding, whatever that happens to be at the time.
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.