Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > > Seems like what will fail is taking one of these utf-8b > decoded names and passing it to some external library > that uses it as a filename without knowing that it has > to use utf-8b to encode it. Then the funny characters > won't be encoded the way they were originally,
But those funny characters only appear for invalid filenames. Passing filenames to a library will work for valid filenames. Sure, not all the problem is solved, but the most important part of it (have all filenames work with Python's IO functions) is. _______________________________________________ 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
