On Monday, June 2, 2014 7:53:05 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Delaney wrote: > On 2 June 2014 11:14, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp....@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Latin-1 is one of those legacy encodings which needs to die, not to be >> entrenched as the default. My terminal uses UTF-8 by default (as it >> should), and if I use the terminal to input "δжç", Python ought to see >> what I input, not Latin-1 moji-bake.
> For some purposes, there needs to be a way to treat an arbitrary > stream of bytes as an arbitrary stream of 8-bit > characters. iso-latin-1 is a convenient way to do that. It's not the > only way, but settling on it and being consistent is better than not > having a way. Here is a quote from the oracle docs: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glmbx.html#glmar | The C locale, also known as the POSIX locale, is the POSIX system | default locale for all POSIX-compliant systems. In more layman language | ASCII also known as the 'Unix locale' is the default for all *nix | compliant systems which is a key aspect of what Ive called 'The UNIX Assumption' : http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
