STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > I think that using ASCII is a safer choice in case of errors.
I choosed UTF-8 to keep backward compatibility: PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize() uses utf-8 if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding==NULL. If the OS has no nl_langinfo(CODESET) function at all, Python3 uses utf-8. > Using UTF-8 may be safe for reading file names, but it's not > safe for creating files or directories. Well, I don't know. You are maybe right. And which encoding should be used if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing: ASCII or UTF-8? UTF-8 is also an optimist choice: I bet that more and more OS will move to UTF-8. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8610> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
