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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm more concerned with your (yours? someone else's?) mention of shift
> characters. I'm unfamiliar with these encodings: to translate such a
> thing into a Latin example, is it the case that there are schemes with
> valid encodings that look like:
> 
>   [SHIFT] a b c
> 
> which would produce "ABC" in unicode, which is ambiguous with:
> 
>   A B C
> 
> which would also produce "ABC"?

No: the "shift" in "shift-jis" is not really about the shift key.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-JIS

Regards,
Martin