On Jan 10, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Putting this here because I found out today it's not in any of the > PEPs and folks have to go digging in mailing list archives to find it. > I'll add it to my Python 3 Q&A at some point. > > The reason Python 3 currently tries to rely on the POSIX locale > encoding is that during the Python 3 development process it was > pointed out that ShiftJIS, ISO-2022 and various CJK codec are in > widespread use in Asia, since Asian users needed solutions to the > problem of representing kana, ideographs and other non-Latin > characters long before the Unicode Consortium existed. Really? Because PEP 383 doesn't support and discourages the use of some of these codecs as a locale. -- Philip Jenvey
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