[Python-Dev] Is this safe enough? Re: [Python-checkins] cpython: _Py_Identifier are always ASCII strings

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Does C99 specify the encoding? Can we expect UTF-8?

No, it's implementation-defined. However, that really doesn't matter
much for the macro (it does matter for the Mercurial repository):

The files on disk are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner,
into the source character set. All processing is done there, including
any stringification. Then, for string literals, the source character set
is converted into the execution character set. So for the definition of
the _Py_identifier macro, it really matters what the run-time encoding
of the stringified identifiers is.

> Python is supposed to work on many platforms ans so support a lot of
> compilers, not only compilers supporting non-ASCII identifiers.

And your point is?

Regards,
Martin