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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm sorry for the lack of clarity of my posts, but somehow you're
> completely missing the point.  The point is precisely that Python
> *won't* use Shift JIS as the file system encoding (if it did there
> would be no problem with reading Shift JIS), but the people who
> created the media *did*.
> 
> Now, with Python's file system encoding == UTF-8 or any packed EUC,
> and more than a handful of Shift JIS or Big5 characters in file names,
> one is *almost certain* to encounter ASCII as the second byte of a
> multibyte sequence.  PEP 383 can't handle this

Not true. PEP 383 handles this very example just fine, with no problems
that I can see. Can you propose a specific example that you think might
cause problems? By "specific", I mean: what file names (exact bytes,
please), what locale charset, what API calls.

Regards,
Martin