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

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Fri Dec 12 16:21:35 CET 2008


Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Curt Hagenlocher <curt <at> hagenlocher.org> writes:
>>> No, but it also has to interact with filesystems of possibly invalid
>>> or indeterminate encodings.  What does java.io do?
>> My point was that Python doesn't have to interact with the Java IO libraries,
>> while it has to interact with the Unix and Windows IO APIs.
> 
> Of course.  But the Java IO libraries have to interact with the Unix
> and Windows IO APIs as well. It might be interesting to know how they
> handle similar situations.

See the following email for a summary of existing practice (as of 2004):

http://www.mail-archive.com/unicode@unicode.org/msg27352.html

-Scott

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