[Python-Dev] Re: Extending locale.py

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
> BTW, I haven't found any mention of what language and encoding
> the locale 'C' assumes or defines. Currently, the module
> reports these as None, meaning undefined. Are language and
> encoding defined for 'C' ?

IIRC, the C locale (and the POSIX character set) is defined in terms
of a "portable character set".  This set contains all ASCII characters,
but doesn't specify what code points to use.

But I think it's safe to assume 7-bit US ASCII.  (Is anyone anywhere
using Python on a non-ASCII platform?  does it even build and run
on such a beast?)

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