2012/2/9 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > > 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. > > As And pointed out, this is already the behaviour of the "mbcs" codec > under Windows. "locale" would be the moral (*) equivalent of that under > Unix.
With the difference that mbcs cannot change during execution. I don't even know if it is possible to change it at all, except by reinstalling Windows. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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