[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] New proposition for Python3 bytes filename issue

[James Y Knight]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
> I suspect linux will eventually take this route as well.  If ext3 had
> an option for UTF-8 validation I know I'd want it on.  That'd move the
> error to the program creating bogus file names, rather than those
> trying to read, display, and manage them.

Of course, even on Mac OS X, or a theoretical UTF-8-enforcing ext3,  
random byte strings are still possible in your program's argv, in  
environment variables, and as arguments to subprocesses.

So python still needs to do something...

James