<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 12, 2017, at 6:34 PM, Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com" class="">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 12 June 2017 at 21:57, Thomas Kluyver <<a href="mailto:thomas@kluyver.me.uk" class="">thomas@kluyver.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is a certain appeal to using the zipped .whl file as the canonical<br class="">format for all tools that produce or consume wheels, rather than defining a<br class="">closely related but distinct 'unpacked wheel' format. A directory and a zip<br class="">file do not have 100% identical features (filename encodings may differ,<br class="">entries in a zip file are ordered, there may be metadata in one format<br class="">that's not present in the other, and so on).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is a reasonable point. As I understand it, zipfiles are<br class="">guaranteed to support the full Unicode range for filenames, via UTF-8.<br class="">But it's not impossible for filesystems to only support a limited<br class="">subset (for example, I believe the encoding used for FAT32 filesystems<br class="">is not clearly defined, but is probably some 8-bit codepage, and Unix<br class="">systems rely on whatever encoding the user has specified via the<br class="">locale settings).<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>As always, it’s complicated — <a href="https://marcosc.com/2008/12/zip-files-and-encoding-i-hate-you/" class="">https://marcosc.com/2008/12/zip-files-and-encoding-i-hate-you/</a></div><div class="">
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