[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Apr2009 14:37, Thomas Breuel <tmbdev at gmail.com> wrote:
| But the biggest problem with the proposal is that it isn't needed: if you
| want to be able to turn arbitrary byte sequences into unicode strings and
| back, just set your encoding to iso8859-15.  That already works and it
| doesn't require any changes.

No it doesn't. It does transcode without throwing exceptions. On POSIX.
(On Windows? I doubt it - windows isn't using an 8-bit scheme. I
believe.) But it utter destorys any hope of working in any other locale
nicely. The PEP lets you work losslessly in other locales.

It _may_ require some app care for particular very weird strings
that don't come from the filesystem, but as far as I can see only in
circumstances where such care would be needed anyway i.e. you've got to
do special stuff for weirdness in the first place. Weird == "ill-formed
unicode string" here.

Cheers,
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