[Web-SIG] WSGI configuration and character encoding.

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:46 PM 11/30/04 -0800, Bill Janssen wrote:
>So maybe the charset of the contents of the config file should just be
>whatever the locale of the machine says it is.  Presumably that's what
>will drive the simple text editor that the user will be using to
>create/edit the file.

For some platforms, that certainly would make sense.  Of course, this is 
also why I was just thinking plain ASCII, at least until somebody pointed 
out that some OSes have Unicode filenames.  IMO, this is really the only 
use case that supports having Unicode support at all; everything we need 
for HTTP itself is either ISO-Latin-1 or "byte strings".