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Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, vstinner
Date	2010-04-19.10:02:54
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Message-id	<1271671375.6.0.161084263973.issue8393@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> PEP 277 explicitly states that unicode strings should be passed to > wide-character functions, whereas byte strings use "standard" > functions. This is done in posixmodule.c, for example. CreateProcessW takes a lot of arguments. Should we CreateProcessA or CreateProcessW if some arguments are byte string and other are unicode string? > The "current locale" is a moving thing. Don't CreateProcessA do the same thing? Convert byte string to unicode using the current locale. To use the right words, by "current locale" I mean the "mbcs" Windows codec.

> PEP 277 explicitly states that unicode strings should be passed to
>  wide-character functions, whereas byte strings use "standard"
> functions. This is done in posixmodule.c, for example.

CreateProcessW takes a lot of arguments. Should we CreateProcessA or CreateProcessW if some arguments are byte string and other are unicode string?

> The "current locale" is a moving thing.

Don't CreateProcessA do the same thing? Convert byte string to unicode using the current locale. To use the right words, by "current locale" I mean the "mbcs" Windows codec.

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