STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: My tests with 7-zip and WinRAR conviced me that it's not a good idea to use utf-8 *by default* on Windows. But since mbcs doesn't support surrogateescape error handler, we should restore the previous behaviour just for this encoding.
tarfile_mbcs_errors.patch creates a function choose_errors() which determine the best error handler depending on the encoding and the mode (read or write): - "strict" to write with mbcs - "replace" to read with mbcs - "surrogateescape" otherwise Please, review my changes on the documentation :-) On Windows, patched tarfile works exactly as Python 3.1. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17607/tarfile_mbcs_errors.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8784> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
