STINNER Victor added the comment: Your clean() function looses information. If a filename contains almost only undecodable characters, it will looks like ����.txt. It's not very useful. I would prefer to escape the byte. Mac OS X (HFS+ filesystem) uses for example %HH format: "\udc80" would be replaced with "%80" for example.
This format is also used in URLs. For example, "a\xe9b.txt" (latin-1, whereas my locale encoding is UTF-8) is displayed "a�b.txt" in Firefox (when listing a local directory), but Firefox uses the URL "file://.../a%E9b.txt" (hexadecimal in uppercase). In the Gnome file browser (Nautilus), "a\xe9b.txt" (latin-1, whereas my locale encoding is UTF-8) is displayed "a�b.txt (invalid encoding)". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18814> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
