On 12/20/2011 11:51 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
We have a question in<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794353> and
<http://bugs.python.org/issue13643> about what encoding bzr and Python
ought to assume for file names if there is no locale configured.
As a specific example, if you run a Python program from cron, it has
no locale by default. It tries to decode filenames as ascii. If it
encounters a non-ascii filename, it will likely crash. People hit
this kind of thing a lot with bzr; we have put in a workaround but it
seems it would be better to fix it in Python.
My impression is the vast majority of filesystems use utf-8 names, and
that other Ubuntu software (Nautilus? U1?) assumes this will generally
be true. Does Ubuntu have any policy that filenames ought to be in
UTF-8?
(I see a bit of discussion in
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#linux but nothing more.)
Yes, on Linux, most of thetime it's UTF-8. However:
* Most of the time is not all the time ;-)
* People sometimes have files where the name is not valid UTF-8, even on
filesystems where UTF-8 is the standard
On U1 we have a lot of code to handle this, because we also deal with
windows, where things are completely different.
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