[Tutor] myown.getfilesystemencoding()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:39:10AM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:

> Wow, thanks for looking all this up. Thanks also to other people who 
> replied. It's not really desirable that a IDE adds confusion to an 
> area that's already confusing to begin with. 

Well, naturally it isn't desirable to add confusion, but I think that 
when dealing with IDEs it is unavoidable. The whole point of an IDE is 
that it is an *integrated* environment, which implies that the 
environment that Python runs in is not the same as unintegrated Python 
would be running in.


> But given that chcp 
> returns cp850 on my windows system (commandline), wouldn't it be more 
> descriptive if sys.getfilesystemencoding() returned 'cp850'?

I cannot comment on the gory details of Windows file system encodings, 
except to say the sooner Windows moves to UTF-8 everywhere like the rest 
of the civilized world, the better.


-- 
Steven