[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Windows, the bytes APIs should probably not exist.
>
> -0.  I'd prefer byte APIs return UTF-16 bytes and the unicode APIs
> become validating.

-1 on UTF-16 bytes, as this seems extremely useless and confusing to me.

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