STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > 2. Create backups for personal use.
What? Really? I'm sure that all Windows users will use ZIP or maybe RAR, but never the geek choice. > 1. Download tar archives from a webpage (when no zip is supplied) for viewing > or extracting. Tarballs come from UNIX/BSD world which use UTF-8 by default since some years ago. > 3. Create source archives from a project for unix users who hate zipfiles. In this case, UTF-8 is also better. -- Did I mentionned that 7-zip is only able to create TAR archive? I mean uncompressed archive. Who will use that? (not me ;-)) WinRAR is unable to create tarballs, even (uncompressed) .tar archive. -- If the maintainer of the tarfile module agrees that UTF-8 is the best choice, I will commit my initial patch. I would prefer to commit tarfile_windows_utf8.patch because it changes 4 lines, whereas tarfile_mbcs_errors.patch changes... much more code :-) tarfile_windows_utf8.patch is not complete: the documentation should also be updated: .. data:: ENCODING The default character encoding i.e. the value from either :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` or :func:`sys.getdefaultencoding`. => .. data:: ENCODING The default character encoding: ``'utf-8'`` on Windows, :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` otherwise. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8784> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
