Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Which charset is used when you use bytes filename?
It's the "ANSI" code page, which is a system-wide admin-modifiable indirection to some real code page (changing it requires a reboot). In the API, it's referred to as CP_ACP. It's also related to the "multi-byte" API, which has caused Mark Hammond to call the codec invoking it "mbcs" (IOW, "mbcs" is always the codec name for the file system encoding). The specific code page that CP_ACP denotes can be found with locale.getpreferredencoding(). Using that codec name (which might be e.g. "cp1252") is different from using "mbcs", as that goes through a regular (table-driven) Python codec. In particular, the Python codec will report errors, whereas the "mbcs" codec will find replacement characters. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
