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

[Antoine Pitrou]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
> 
> Such application specific error handlers could then also apply
> whatever fancy round-trip safe encoding of non-decodable bytes
> to Unicode escapes, private code points, etc. as seen fit by the
> application.

I'd argue that such fancy round-trip safe error handler should be provided by
Python. It's not reasonable to expect application coders to come up with their
own codec variation based on subtle details of the unicode spec.

Regards

Antoine.