[Python-ideas] Processing surrogates in

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 May 2015 at 14:00, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It seems like launchd systems are as good as systemd systems here. Or are you not considering OS X a *nix?
>
> I suppose given than the timeline for Apple to switch to Python 3 as the default Python is "maybe it'll happen, but we'll never tell you until a month before the public beta", it isn't really all that relevant...

We don't look at the locale encoding at all when it comes to system
interfaces on Mac OS X - CPython is hardcoded to use UTF-8 instead.
While Apple's tight control over their ecosystem alienates me as a
consumer, it certainly has its advantages as a developer :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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