[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

[Simon Cross]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Simon Cross wrote:
>>
>> I think I'm -1 on a "locale" encoding because it refers to different
>> actual encodings depending on where and when it's run, which seems
>> surprising
>
>
> Why is it surprising? Surely that's the whole point of a locale encoding: to
> use the locale encoding, whatever that happens to be at the time.

I think there's a general expectation that if you encode something
with one codec you will be able to decode it with the same codec.
That's not necessarily true for the locale encoding.