#1191: dabo uses utf-8 instead of cp1252 as default encoding on Windows
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Reporter: cito | Owner: somebody
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 0.8.3
Component: ui | Version: 0.8.4
Resolution: | Keywords: encoding
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Comment (by ed):
Replying to [comment:1 paul]:
> I think this is the correct behavior, btw, because it allows application
code to set the locale explicitly. So I think we need to check things in
this order:
>
> 1) locale.getlocale() if not (None, None)
> 2) locale.getdefaultlocale() if no error
> 3) 'utf-8'
>
> But where are we talking about in Dabo? I think it is perfectly fine and
appropriate for Dabo to default to utf-8 in general, but agree that for
writing file and directory names we need to use the filesystem encoding,
>
> But I could be convinced that App.Encoding should pull from
locale.getlocale() or locale.getdefaultlocale() instead of the hard-coded
'utf-8' it does currently.
>
> Ed?
I'm in a little over my head here. One of the disadvantages of being a US-
based, English-only developer is that you can go through life remaining
largely ignorant of all these differences.
I'd recommend changing the code to whatever works for the non-ASCII, non-
UTF8 file systems, but keeping the defaults for the framework as is. At
worse this will break someone else's stuff, and we can then try to figure
out what will work in all (or at least all known) cases.
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