On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows native type for filenames is > Unicode, and the Windows has a weird behaviour when you use bytes. Just to clarify -- what does it currently do for bytes? IIUC, Windows uses UTF-16, so can you pass in UTF-16 bytes? Or when using bytes is is assuming some Windows ANSI-compatible encoding? (and what does it return?) Are we brave enough to force users to use the "right" type for filenames? > I think so :-) On Python 2, it wasn't possible to use Unicode for filenames, many > functions fail badly with Unicode, I've had fine success using Unicode filenames with py2 on Windows -- in fact, as soon as my users have non-ansi characters in their names I'm pretty sure I have no choice.... especially when you mix bytes and > Unicode. > well yes, that sure does get ugly! -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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