Greg Ewing wrote: > How about just using ascii if the codec system isn't fully > operational? It would just mean that files needed during > bootstrapping would need to have pure-ascii filenames, > which doesn't seem like a serious restriction.
The file names aren't the issue but the directory names are. For example it may screw up a local installation in the user's application data directory on Windows if the user name contains umlauts. Any kind of installation in $HOME would cause trouble if $USER isn't plain ASCII. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
