A nice recent blog post about paths encoding in a media player. http://beets.io/blog/paths.html . It's not merely the porting that makes it hard.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 19:32 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-08-24 17:44 GMT+02:00 Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org>: > > I know Nick and Victor like the idea of a -X flag (or a direct -utf8 > flag), > > but I prefer more specific environment variables: > > > > - PYTHONWINDOWSLEGACYSTDIO (for the console changes) > > - PYTHONWINDOWSLEGACYPATHENCODING (assuming getfilesystemencoding() is > utf8) > > - PYTHONWINDOWSLEGACYLOCALEENCODING (assuming getpreferredencoding() is > > utf8) > > Hum, you propose the opposite behaviour of my proposed "-X utf8" > switch :-) You propose to force UTF-8 by default, but add a new flag > to revert to the old behaviour. Right? > > About (...)LEGACYSTDIO: I don't think that we need such option. Using > Unicode is the obvious choice if stdout/stderr is the Windows console > no? I'm not talking about the case where stdout/stderr is redirected > (into a file or a pipe). Are you aware of any case where the "legacy > stdio" is better than the "new" (win_unicode_console-like) stdio? > > (...)PATHENCODING and (...)LOCALEENCODING: please don't do that. I > tried once in Python 3.2 on Linux, and it failed badly: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-October/104517.html > > I don't think that it's a good idea to add an option to use two > different encodings inside the same process. It's too common to > exchange data between the "path encoding world" and "locale encoding > world". > > Hum, currently, is it possible to get two different encodings for > "path encoding" and "locale encoding"? Or both encodings are the ANSI > code page? I only recall that the console uses a different encoding, > the OEM code page. > > Victor > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dholth%40gmail.com >
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