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Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, ocean-city, vstinner
Date	2011-06-17.05:49:00
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Message-id	<1308289740.88.0.84924790494.issue12281@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I don't know yet how Windows do decode bytes filenames > (especially how it handles undecodable bytes), > I suppose that it uses MultiByteToWideChar using cp=CP_ACP and flags=0. It's likely, yes. But you don't need a new codec function for this. What about something like .decode('mbcs', errors='windows')? I still don't see the advantage of codecs.code_page_encode().

> I don't know yet how Windows do decode bytes filenames
> (especially how it handles undecodable bytes), 
> I suppose that it uses MultiByteToWideChar using cp=CP_ACP and flags=0.
It's likely, yes.  But you don't need a new codec function for this.
What about something like .decode('mbcs', errors='windows')?

I still don't see the advantage of codecs.code_page_encode().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-17 05:49:00	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, vstinner, ocean-city
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2011-06-17 05:49:00	amaury.forgeotdarc	create