> I'm not talking about Windows obviously. POSIX filenames are natively > bytes, so if you get a bytes filename from an external source, it makes > sense to reuse the bytes form. > > I think it would be a mistake to allow bytes filenames under POSIX but > not under Windows. It makes porting harder.
Not really. People who want to write portable code should use Unicode filenames everywhere, not byte filenames. > >> - tar stores filenames... in the locale encoding (except for PAX format >> which >> uses utf-8) > > So bytes filenames are useful at least for tar. No, they are not. The tarfile module decodes all file names on its own, IIUC. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
