[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:40 PM 9/21/2009 -0700, Robert Brewer wrote:
>Yes; you have to transcode to the "correct" encoding. Once. Then every
>other WSGI application interface "below" that one doesn't have to care.

You can only do that if you *break encapsulation*, which as I said 
earlier is voiding the entire point of having a modular interface.

Having a configurable encoding just means that *every* WSGI 
application *must* verify the encoding in order to be safe.  I'm all 
in favor of making everyone suffer equally, but all else being equal, 
I'd prefer them to suffer idempotently rather than conditionally.  ;-)