On 10/03/2020 14:58, David Mertz wrote:
Most real-world UNIX systems only support ASCII-compatible encodings.
There's no reason not to solve the problem on such systems by using
os.fsdecode().
Huh?!
Is my Ubuntu derivative not "real world"?
666-tmp % uname -a
Linux popkdm 5.3.0-7629-generic #31~1581628825~19.10~f90b7d5-Ubuntu SMP Fri
Feb 14 19:56:45 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
667-tmp % touch ✗—Not-ASCII
668-tmp % ls ✗*
✗—Not-ASCII
672-tmp % ls ✗* | hexdump -C
00000000 e2 9c 97 e2 80 94 4e 6f 74 2d 41 53 43 49 49 0a
|......Not-ASCII.|
00000010
Yes, but it is ASCII-compatible; ASCII characters are encoded as their
7-bit ASCII values. I'm not sure this is a particularly useful
observation, mind you.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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