On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > During > Python 3.2 development, we tried to be able to use a filesystem encoding > different than the locale encoding (PYTHONFSENCODING environment > variable): but it doesn't work simply because Python is not alone in the > OS. Except Python, all programs speak the same "language": the locale > encoding. Let's try to give you an example: if create a module with a > name encoded to UTF-8, your file browser will display mojibake.
Is that really true? I'm pretty sure GTK+ treats all filenames as UTF-8 no matter what the locale says. (over-rideable by G_FILENAME_ENCODING or G_BROKEN_FILENAMES) James _______________________________________________ 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
