Ivan Sagalaev wrote:
> gabor wrote:
>
>> for example, i was building a very simple web-file-manager. you can ask
>> python to get you the os.listdir, etc, data in unicode, which i think
>> the only sensible way, because otherwise you have to watch out for the
>> filesystem-encoding. but because the querystring and httpresponse is
>> bytestring, i have .encode('utf8'), .decode('utf8') all the way.
>>
>>
> Not at all. You can talk to file system in utf-8 and do no conversions
> at all. I'm doing it in my app and it works just fine.
>
> I don't know exactly how Python handles encoding of data that it
> receives from the OS and I think there can be problems with
> misconfigured OS giving out those characters in a non-UTF8 byte
> encoding. But unicode here won't help either since Python would try to
> convert some arbitrary stream to unicode and will throw an exception.
> With byte string I suppose you will get the string without errors but
> with the garbage in it. All this anyway just requires configuring
> locales properly.
hmm.. i somehow thought that python does this correctly (means: detect
locale, do the charset stuff)...are you sure that it's not handling it
correctly?
and what about non-utf8 filesystems (like windows, or some old linux
that's maybe still in latin1)?
>
> And as a sidenote: HttpResponse can happily accept unicode with
> convertion to DEFAULT_CHARSET on actual output.
>
good to know
> For example I can very quickly distinguish string that is in
> utf-8 shown in windows-1251 locale from string in windows-1251 shown in
> utf-8 locale by just looking at it.
hmm.. i'm not sure that this is a good thing or a bad thing :-))
gabor
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