Message 205538 - Python tracker

Message205538

Author	vstinner
Recipients	deleted250130, larry, lemburg, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2013-12-08.10:49:59
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Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > > Python uses the fact that the filesystem encoding is the locale > > encoding in various places. > The patch doesn't change that. Nick Coghlan added the comment: > Note that the only change Antoine's patch makes is that: > - if the locale encoding is ASCII (or an alias for ASCII) > - then Python sets the filesystem encoding to UTF-8 instead If the locale encoding is ASCII, filesystem encoding (UTF-8) is different than the locale encoding.

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Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
> > Python uses the fact that the filesystem encoding is the locale
> > encoding in various places.
> The patch doesn't change that.

Nick Coghlan added the comment:
> Note that the *only* change Antoine's patch makes is that:
> - *if* the locale encoding is ASCII (or an alias for ASCII)
> - *then* Python sets the filesystem encoding to UTF-8 instead

If the locale encoding is ASCII, filesystem encoding (UTF-8) is
different than the locale encoding.

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