On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On approximately 10/6/2008 10:18 PM, came the following characters from the
> keyboard of Adam Olsen:
>> But "Unicode" on windows is invalid. It shares all the same problems
>> UTF-8b does, but worse as a correct UTF-16 codec would forbid
>> exporting it. We'd need to invent a UTF-16b to save it, or simulate
>> one manually.
>>
>> If the binary APIs on windows emitted raw UTF-16 bytes
>>
>> They do, for some definition of UTF-16, yes.
>>
>> then we merely
>> need to add a os.sepb equal to os.sep.encode('UTF-16') and you've got
>> your portable low-level API. You don't need a path object.
>
> Except it isn't portable, because you can't do that on Posix.
The posix version should hardcode it as b'/'; I only meant windows to
use UTF-16. You could perhaps use sys.getfilesystemencoding(), but
I'm unsure what it does if the encoding isn't an ascii superset (or
even if that can actually happen.)
--
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
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