Toshio Kuratomi writes: > Adam Olsen 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.
True. > > 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. > > > Uhmmm.... That's good advice but doesn't solve any problems :-(. Exactly. Furthermore, the problems *already exist*. My current locale is UTF-8 and all files dated since about 2002 have UTF-8 names, *except* in my MIME-bodies garbage can, where only recently have I got around to coercing my MUA to doing the right thing. And of course there are still legacy files names in EUC-JP, which I suppose I could search for but since I only access a directory containing one once in a pale blue moon, I'm not gonna bother. It's just not reasonable to expect users or even sysadminns to go around cleaning up legacy data. _______________________________________________ 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
