[Python-Dev] PEP 383 (again)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

MRAB wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>> Furthermore, I don't believe that PEP 383 works consistently on Windows,
>>
>> What makes you say that? PEP 383 will have no effect on Windows,
>> compared to the status quo, whatsoever.
>>
> You could argue that if Windows is actually returning UTF-16 with half
> surrogates that they should be altered to conform to what UTF-8 would
> have returned.

Perhaps - but this is not what the PEP specifies (and intentionally so).

Regards,
Martin