"Martin v. Löwis" writes: > I find the case pretty artificial, though: if the locale encoding > changes, all file names will look incorrect to the user, so he'll > quickly switch back, or rename all the files.
It's not necessarily the case that the locale encoding changes, but rather the name of the file. I have a couple of directories where I have Japanese in both EUC-JP and UTF-8, for example. (The applications where I never bothered to do a conversion from EUC to UTF-8 are things like stripping MIME attachments from messages and saving them to files when I changed my default.) So I have a little Emacs Lisp function that tries EUC or UTF8 depending on date and falls back to the other on a decode error. Another possible situation would be a user program in the user's locale communicating with a daemon running in some other locale (quite likely POSIX). So while out of scope of the PEP, I don't think it's at all artificial. _______________________________________________ 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
