10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
4:04 p.m.
On 10/03/2020 14:58, David Mertz wrote:
Most real-world UNIX systems only support ASCII-compatible encodings. There's no reason not to solve the problem on such systems by using os.fsdecode().
Huh?!
Is my Ubuntu derivative not "real world"?
666-tmp % uname -a Linux popkdm 5.3.0-7629-generic #31~1581628825~19.10~f90b7d5-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 14 19:56:45 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 667-tmp % touch ✗—Not-ASCII 668-tmp % ls ✗* ✗—Not-ASCII
672-tmp % ls ✗* | hexdump -C 00000000 e2 9c 97 e2 80 94 4e 6f 74 2d 41 53 43 49 49 0a |......Not-ASCII.| 00000010
Yes, but it is ASCII-compatible; ASCII characters are encoded as their 7-bit ASCII values. I'm not sure this is a particularly useful observation, mind you. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd