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 anything *other* than ASCII, then that will still be used as the filesystem encoding, so environments that use something other than ASCII for the C locale will retain their current behaviour. The rationale for this approach is based on the assumption that the *most likely* way to get a locale encoding of ASCII at this point in time is to use "LANG=C" on a system where the locale encoding is normally something more suited to a Unicode world (likely UTF-8). Will assuming utf-8 sometimes cause problems? Quite possibly. But assuming that the platform's claim to only support ASCII is correct causes serious usability problems, too. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
