On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 6:37 PM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > > On 3/17/2021 8:00 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > How about writing paths as bytestrings in the long term? I think this > > should eliminate the necessity of knowing the correct encoding for > > the filesystem. > > That's what we're trying to do, the problem is that they start as > strings, and so we need to convert them to a bytestring. > > That conversion is the encoding ;) > > And yeah, for reading, I'd use a UTF-8 reader that falls back to locale > on failure (and restarts reading the file). But for writing, we need the > tools that create these files (including Notepad!) to use the encoding > we want.
A somewhat radical idea carrying this to the extreme would be to use UTF-16 (LE) on Windows. After all, this _is_ the native file system encoding, and Notepad will happily read and write it. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/WRAW4UI3X3WYMQ3FMIERDKTVD6WKD5S2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
