New submission from Nick Coghlan: The sys.argv docs [1] currently contain no mention of the fact that they are Unicode strings decoded from bytes provided by the OS. They also don't explain how to correct a decoding error by reversing Python's implicit conversion and redoing it based on the application's knowledge of the correct encoding, as described at [2] [1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/sys#sys.argv [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6981594/sys-argv-as-bytes-in-python-3k/ ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Unicode messages: 181239 nosy: docs@python, ezio.melotti, ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: sys.argv docs should explaining how to handle encoding issues type: enhancement versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17110> _______________________________________