Re: [gpsd-dev] Update on Python Version Compatibility

[Fred Wright]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Fred Wright wrote:

> The two remaining pieces are the str vs. bytes stuff, and a "target

One complication on str vs. bytes is that the "latin-1 hack" doesn't
always work as well as it first appears.  In some contexts, a string is
assumed to have the default encoding, which is derived from the
environment.  Aside from being non-hermetic, this also means that if LANG
is unset (and I had to unset it in regress-driver to keep sed from choking
on some binary data), the encoding is assumed to be 'ascii', which chokes
on anything with the high-order bit set.

Fred Wright