[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

[Victor Stinner]

2012/2/10 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>> As And pointed out, this is already the behaviour of the "mbcs" codec
>> under Windows. "locale" would be the moral (*) equivalent of that under
>> Unix.
>
> Indeed, and that precedent should be enough reason *not* to include a
> "locale" encoding. The "mbcs" encoding has caused much user confusion
> over the years, and it is less useful than people typically think. For
> example, for some time, people thought that names in zip files ought to
> be encoded in "mbcs", only to find out that this is incorrect years
> later. With a "locale" encoding, the risk for confusion and untestable
> code is too high (just consider the ongoing saga of the Turkish dotless
> i (ı)).

Well, I expected answer and I agree that there are more drawbacks than
advantages. I will close the issue as wontfix. The current locale can
already be read using locale.getpreferredencoding(False) and I already
fixed functions using the current locale encoding.

Victor