[Python-Dev] Bytes path support

[Paul Moore]

On 21 August 2014 23:27, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> That's not "ASCII compatible". That's "not all byte codes can be freely used
> without thought", and any multibyte coding will have to consider such things
> when embedding itself in another coding scheme.

I wonder how badly a Unix system would break if you specified UTF16 as
the system encoding...?
Paul