New submission from Michael Vogt: The Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is very static right now and only set on interpreter statup AFAICT. There appears to be no way to switch that later.
I think that Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding should get updated when locale.setlocale() is run automatically and attach a proof-of-concept patch for this. The reason is that if a python application is started without a environment (dbus activation will do that for example) its impossible to work with utf8 encoded filenames. The only workaround is to setup a environment and then os.execv() which seems not ideal. ---------- components: Unicode files: alllow-chaning-of-Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.diff keywords: patch messages: 172373 nosy: ezio.melotti, mvo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding should be updated on locale.setlocale() versions: Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27486/alllow-chaning-of-Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16162> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
