[Python-Dev] Use our strict mbcs codec instead of the Windows ANSI API

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Oct 25 10:08:12 CEST 2011


On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:57:42 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I propose to raise Unicode errors if a filename cannot be decoded on Windows, 
> instead of creating a bogus filenames with questions marks. Because this change 
> is incompatible with Python 3.2, even if such filenames are unusable and I 
> consider the problem as a (Python?) bug, I would like your opinion on such 
> change before working on a patch.

+1 from me.

Regards

Antoine.




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