[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler

[Antoine Pitrou]

Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:
> 
> Nothing is lost compared to 'strict', true, but under the PEP as it is
> a large fraction of Shift JIS and Big5 filenames cannot be read under
> ASCII-compatible file system encodings using 'utf8b'.

You should really be more specific. I'm not sure about others, but I don't
understand what filenames you are talking about.