[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Wed May 6 07:10:41 CEST 2009
"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
> > It occurs to me that the PEP maybe should say that it is an error
> > to have your POSIX locale set to UTF-16 or something like that.
>
> No. It is *impossible* to have UTF-16 as the locale character set,
> not an error. Your statement is like saying "it is an error to
> breathe in the vacuum".
I realize this is not useful, so maybe you don't need to mention it.
However, it certainly is possible to set LANG with an absurd, or
merely dangerous, encoding.
> In any case, the discussion says
>
> # Encodings that are not compatible with ASCII are not supported by
> # this specification; bytes in the ASCII range that fail to decode
> # will cause an exception. It is widely agreed that such encodings
> # should not be used as locale charsets.
Which is your excuse for not supporting Shift JIS fully. It doesn't
stop people from setting LC_ALL=ja_JP.shift_jis, or using Shift JIS as
the default encoding for certain media.
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