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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Dec 8 00:42:50 CET 2008


Nick Coghlan wrote:

> For binary wrappers around the Windows Unicode APIs, I was thinking
> specifically of using UTF-8, since that should be able to encode
> anything the Unicode APIs can handle.

Why shouldn't the binary interface just expose the raw
utf16 as bytes?

-- 
Greg


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