<div dir="ltr">+1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-05 3:21 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 5 September 2017 at 09:00, Thomas Kluyver <<a href="mailto:thomas@kluyver.me.uk">thomas@kluyver.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> I considered this. It's *potentially* a problem, but I think we should<br>
> not try to deal with it for now:<br>
><br>
> - Normally, temp files will go in /tmp - so it should be fine to<br>
> construct paths of entirely ascii characters.<br>
> - Frontends that want the wheel to end up elsewhere can ask for it in a<br>
> tmp directory first and then move it, so there's a workaround if it<br>
> becomes an issue.<br>
> - We already have workarounds for the commonest case of UTF-8 paths + C<br>
> locale: ignore the locale and treat paths as UTF-8.<br>
> - The 'right' way to deal with it on Unix is to make all paths bytes,<br>
> which would introduce a similar issue on Windows. If paths have to be<br>
> bytes in some situations and unicode in others, both frontends and<br>
> backends need extra complexity to handle that.<br>
> - If your non-ascii username breaks stuff on Python 2... Python 3 is<br>
> ready to make your life easier.<br>
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</span>+1 on this<br>
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