Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mercredi 08 octobre 2008 à 00:00 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > You seem to think that the notion of "file system encoding" > is also flawed - but do you infer from that that it also should be > removed? Under the condition we find something better, yes. Otherwise, let's keep the heuristi

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Guido van Rossum python.org> writes: >> I expect that the only effect of this change would be that the >> filesystem encoding would become the de-facto default encoding for >> other contexts as well. > > But there is no such thing as "the" filesystem encoding (except in Py

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Guido van Rossum python.org> writes: > > I expect that the only effect of this change would be that the > filesystem encoding would become the de-facto default encoding for > other contexts as well. But there is no such thing as "the" filesystem encoding (except in Python's simplified heuristics

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-10-07 22:18, Fred Drake wrote: > On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> b) I would propose that the notion of a default encoding is entirely >> eliminated from Python, along with sys.(get|set)defaultencoding > > +1 As already mentioned in my reply to Viktor: +1. It's n

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >> b) I would propose that the notion of a default encoding is entirely >>eliminated from Python, along with sys.(get|set)defaultencoding > > +1 I expect that the only

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python3UnicodeDecodeError

2008-10-07 Thread Fred Drake
On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: b) I would propose that the notion of a default encoding is entirely eliminated from Python, along with sys.(get|set)defaultencoding +1 -Fred -- Fred Drake ___ Python-3000 mailing list P