Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #16218: skip test if filesystem doesn't support required encoding

On 08.11.12 01:08, R. David Murray wrote:

Alexandre's point was that the string did not appear to be arbitrary, but rather appeared to specifically be a string containing surrogates. Is this not the case?

My intention was testing with filename which cannot be decoded as UTF-8 in strict mode. I agree that testing with name which is encodable in locale encoding can be useful too, but now the test has no effect on UTF-8 locale.