[Python-Dev] Import and unicode: part two

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Tue Jan 25 10:22:41 CET 2011


On 2011-01-25, at 04:26 , Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> * If you can pick a set of encodings that are valid (utf-8 for Linux and
>  MacOS

HFS+ uses UTF-16 in NFD (actually in an Apple-specific variant of NFD). Right here you've already broken Python modules on OSX.

And as far as I know, Linux software/FS generally use NFC (I've already seen this issue cause trouble)



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