[Python-Dev] Import and unicode: part two

[Neil Hodgson]

Toshio Kuratomi:

> When they update their OS to a version that has
> utf-8 python module names, they will find that they have to make a choice.
> They can either change their locale settings to a utf-8 encoding and have
> the system installed modules work or they can leave their encoding on their
> non-utf-8 encoding and have the modules that they've created on-site work.

   When switching to a UTF-8 locale, they can also change the file
names of their modules to be encoded in UTF-8. It would be fairly easy
to write a script that identifies non-ASCII file names in a directory
and offers to transcode their names from their current encoding to
UTF-8.

   Neil