On 5 September 2017 at 01:36, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> 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 | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
