[Python-Dev] Bytes path support

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Fri Aug 22 03:09:33 CEST 2014


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 05:00:02PM -0700, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/2014 3:42 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> >I wonder how badly a Unix system would break if you specified UTF16 as
> >the system encoding...?
> 
> Does Unix even support UTF-16 as an encoding?

   As an encoding of file's content? Certainly yes. As a locale
encoding? Definitely no.

Oleg.
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