Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: >From the python-dev thread >(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/103780.html): ============== So the domain of any polymorphic text manipulation functions we define would be: - Unicode strings - byte sequences where the encoding is either: - a single byte ASCII superset (e.g. iso-8859-*, cp1252, koi8*, mac*) - an ASCII compatible multibyte encoding (e.g. UTF-8, EUC-JP)
Passing in byte sequences that are encoded using an ASCII incompatible multibyte encoding (e.g. CP932, UTF-7, UTF-16, UTF-32, shift-JIS, big5, iso-2022-*, EUC-CN/KR/TW) or a single byte encoding that is not an ASCII superset (e.g. EBCDIC) will have undefined results. ================== ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
