> > But didn't we at one point conclude that -U was never gonna work? > > I'm not aware of a formal decision about that. I readily admit that it > wont' work in any foreseeable future, but I haven't given up for P3k :-) Maybe MAL remembers after seeing this checkin comment to Modules/main.c: ---------------------------- revision 1.63 date: 2002/02/11 18:46:47; author: lemburg; state: Exp; lines: +0 -1 Remove mentioning of -U option in "python -h" output. ---------------------------- > This time, my interest was triggered by someone on c.l.p who could not > reverse a string, since it was in UTF-8; he was asking why Python is > so difficult for Swedish people. Yeah, he mailed me first -- I don't understand why his default encoding isn'y Latin-1 though. > > And wasn't that why it's no longer documented? > > Yes: because it won't work in any foreseeable future. > > I'll take your statement that "small" changes towards making -U work > are acceptable; I'll see how far I get with small changes until I get > stuck again. Sure. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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