Patches item #1552880, was opened at 2006-09-05 20:11 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1552880&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Core (C code) Group: Python 2.6 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Kristj�n Valur (krisvale) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Unicode Imports Initial Comment: This patch modifies the import mechanism to fully support unicode pathnames on Windows. It does this by first converting each member of sys.path to utf-8. strings are encoded using the current locale. The whole of the import logic is then unchanged and works on the utf-8 strings as though they were regular ascii strings in the current locale. Only when file operations are done, such as stat() and open(), do we then convert from utf-8 back to unicode and use the Windows unicode APIs for the job. This is also done when initializing Module objects. This approach has the benefit of being of having a low impact on the importing logic, and is thus easy to verify. There is however some overhead with the conversions. At CCP games we used this approach, backported to python 2.3, to get unicode imports working for our game, EVE Online, and thereby solving installation issues in the far east. This patch is submitted as demonstration code to the python community. I would like to see unicode fully supported in 2.6. Cheers, Kristján ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-09-08 23:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 What is the value of the __file__ attribute of a module when this patch is used? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1552880&group_id=5470
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