[Python-Dev] Patch for an initial support of bytes filename in Python3

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Simon Cross writes:

 > a) There is some chance that at least ASCII characters will be
 > displayed correctly if getfilesystemencoding() is similar to the
 > encoding used and corrupted filenames will display correctly except
 > for corrupted characters.

All you're saying is that the cases *you* can imagine running into
work better.  All I'm saying is the opposite.  We're both right; the
point is that that means that Python can't be, not all of the time.

We know from experience (Emacs/Mule, Java) that trying to impose a
theoretical system on encoding just doesn't work by itself[1], and in
fact creates other problems by its very rigidity.  I'd like to see
Python not fall into that trap, too.


Footnotes: 
[1]  It needs system-level support as in Windows and Mac OS X.