[issue9992] Command line arguments are not correctly decodediflocale and fileystem encodingsaredifferent
Martin v. Löwis
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Oct 10 21:44:22 CEST 2010
Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> I don't know what you mean by dropping, since OS X by construction needs
> a filesystem encoding (utf-8) different from the locale encoding;
See above. I propose to stop using the locale encoding for command line
arguments and environment variables on OSX, and use UTF-8 instead.
> and
> Windows hardwires the decoding/encoding of bytes filenames using mbcs
> regardless of the current codepage, IIRC.
I wish byte-oriented file names could be dropped on Windows. But that
is probably too incompatible.
> So do you just mean the filesystem encoding should be hidden from the
> user? What would be the benefit?
That the very issue that this bug report (re-read the title) is about
would go away.
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