On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:16:45 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > In unix and linux, there never was a separate text mode for files. When > you open a file, you open a file -- and stuff bytes in it. There is no > commonly accepted text file encoding. UTF-8 comes close to being a > standard, but I know somebody who sticks to an ISO-8859-1 locale.
Here's the Solaris docs: | The C locale, also known as the POSIX locale, is the POSIX system | default locale for all POSIX-compliant systems. The Oracle Solaris | operating system is a POSIX system. The Single UNIX Specification, | Version 3, defines the C locale. You can register at | http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html to read and download the | specification. | | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glmbx.html#glmar Layman version: ASCII - also known as the Unix locale - is the default for all *nix compliant systems. expanded further at http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
