30 Sep
2008
30 Sep
'08
1:53 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:00 PM, "Martin v. Löwis"
Change the default file system encoding to store bytes in Unicode is like introducing a new Python type: <fake Unicode for filename hacks>.
Exactly. Seems like the best solution to me, despite your polemics.
Martin, I don't understand why you are in favor of storing raw bytes encoded as Latin-1 in Unicode string objects, which clearly gives rise to mojibake. In the past you have always been staunchly opposed to API changes or practices that could lead to mojibake (and you had me quite convinced). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)