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

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Adam Olsen wrote:

> A half-broken setup is still a broken setup.  Eventually you have to
> tell people to stop screwing around and pick one encoding.
> 
But it's not a broken setup.  It's the way the world is because people
share things with each other.

> I doubt that UTF-16 is used very much (other than on windows).  I
> haven't found any statistics on what distros use, but did find this
> one of the web itself:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html
> 
UTF-16 is popular in Asian locales for the same reason that shift-js and
big-5 are hanging in there.  utf-8 takes many more bytes to encode Asian
Unicode characters than utf-16.

-Toshio

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