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

[Nick Coghlan]

André Malo wrote:
>> While on Windows:
>> - underlying OS API uses Unicode
>> - Unicode API just passes values straight through
>> - binary API uses the system encoding to decode bytes names and values
>> to be passed to the OS API and to encode Unicode names and values
>> received from the OS API
> 
> Now that is somewhat strange. That way you'll have two unreliable APIs and 
> need to switch depending on the platform again.

Sory, system encoding was probably a poor choice of words there, since
that generally means mbcs when talking about windows (which would indeed
be a very poor choice of encoding).

For binary wrappers around the Windows Unicode APIs, I was thinking
specifically of using UTF-8, since that should be able to encode
anything the Unicode APIs can handle.

Cheers,
Nick.

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