[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 02:22:29AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> And environment variables, command line arguments, and file names
> are not bytes, but characters.

   "There is no such thing as plain text!" If you say "these are
characters" you must also name the encoding for them. LANG/LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE
provide a sensible default, but if a program has problems decoding bytes to
characters there must be a way for the user to override the default. But
the user must be notified about the error, so programs must not silently
filters out non-decodable characters.

Oleg.
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