[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> (RO) wrote:

>RO> For what it's worth, the OSX API's seem to behave as follows:
>RO> * If you create a file with an non-UTF8 name on a HFS+ filesystem the
>RO> system automaticly encodes the name.

>RO> That is,  open(chr(255), 'w') will silently create a file named '%FF'
>RO> instead of the name you'd expect on a unix system.

Not for me (I am using Python 2.6.2).

>>> f = open(chr(255), 'w')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('w') or filename: '\xff'
>>> 

I once got a tar file from a Linux system which contained a file with a
non-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 encoded filename. The tar file refused to be
unpacked on a HFS+ filesystem.
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