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[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environStephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Dec 6 06:31:51 CET 2008
Nick Coghlan writes:

 > True, but it's still a fairly important problem to have a solution to.
 > Even internally in large organisations there can be some pretty insane
 > environments as cruft accumulates over the years.

M&A and globalization makes it inevitable.

Toshio will remember the Mizuho April Fool's Day fiasco (a couple of
large banks merged, and when they reopened as a merged entity called
"Mizuho", the ATM system immediately crashed).

Japan being a country that doesn't believe in GAAP, such mergers are a
very difficult problem.  I don't know the details, but I wouldn't even
be surprised if encodings played a role in that mess because Japanese
companies often have their own internal variants of the national
standard JIS encoding.
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