On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
While I can sympathize with people having non-ASCII file names on
their
disks, I can't sympathize with this example. Normal users just don't
put \x90 into their command lines, and those who do deserve the error
message they get.
That's just not true! One of the most common kind of thing to put on a
command line is a filename.
And you can't say that users wouldn't be able to type the odd
bytesequences: tab completion and xargs will both allow input of those
oddly-named files to the command line.
James
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