Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: I have a patch for this, which uses MBCS conversion instead of relying on the default utf-8 (here and several other places). Tested on a French version of winXP.
Which leads me to the question: should Windows use MBCS encoding by default when converting between char* and PyUnicode, and not utf-8? There are some other tracker items which would benefit from this. After all, C strings can only come from 1) python code, 2) system i/o and messages, and 3) constants in source code. IMO, 1) can use the representation it prefers, 2) would clearly lead to less error if handled as MBCS and 3) only uses 7bit ascii. There is very little need for utf-8 here. ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1040> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
