Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
> Here is a patch that solves the issue in a different way: it introduces
> sys.setfilesystemencoding. If applications invoke
> sys.setfilesystemencoding("iso-8859-1"), all file names can be
> successfully converted into a character string.
I'm not opposed to this going in as well, but I don't think it's the
right approach, as it can cause severe cases of mojibake (which you
have strongly opposed in the past). It's quite orthogonal to Victor's
patch IMO.
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