On 5 September 2017 at 01:36, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: >> - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C >> locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8. > > Only in 3.7, I think? Or do you mean, backends should be doing this > manually on Python 2?
The frontend controls the locale that the backend runs in, so the frontend can set C.UTF-8 even if the frontend itself is launched in the C locale. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
