On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@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. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
