On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 09:53, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > > I'm sure that the Unicode approach works great on Windows, where wchar_t > is so pervasive that Microsoft may as well have just redefined "char" > (even to the point of preferring UTF-16-LE for text files over UTF-8, > ASCII-compatibility be damned). > > But on Unix, it's a square-peg-round-hole situation.
I dunno, I find it rather useful not to have to faff about with encoding to/from when working with non-ASCII files (with non-ASCII filenames) on Linux. -------- Rami Chowdhury "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice." -- Hanlon's Razor 408-597-7068 (US) / 07875-841-046 (UK) / 0189-245544 (BD) > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
