On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Adam Olsen <rha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> > wrote: >> Unfortunately, even programmers experienced in I18N like Martin, and >> those with intuition-that-has-the-force-of-law<wink> like Guido, >> express deliberate disbelief on this point. They say that filesystem >> names and environment variable values are text, which is true from the >> semantic viewpoint but can't be fully supported by any implementation. > > With all the focus on backup tools and file managers I think we've > lost perspective. They're an important use case, but hardly the > dominant one. > > Please, as a user, if your app is creating new files, do NOT use > bytes! You have no excuse for creating garbage, and garbage doesn't > help the user any. Getting the encoding right, use the unicode APIs, > and don't pass the buck on to everything else. > > The fact that the unicode is easier is a bonus for doing the right thing.
As a data point, firefox (when pointed at my home dir) DOES skip over garbage files. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
