I came across a problem today with Cygwin 1.7 while using rdiff-backup,
which is a Python program. I have a directory with a file having a
non-ASCII character in the name. rdiff-backup was unable to backup that
directory.
When codepage:utf was supported, this worked fine. Now, it fails, even
when I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my environment. It all boils down to
this python code:
import os
os.listdir('.')
(That's an example I run from within the directory.) This fails with an
error
OSError: [Errno 138] Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide
character: '.'
unless one does this first:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
I've patched rdiff-backup to do this, but I'm still wondering if this is
the correct thing to do. I know that on my Linux machine, I don't have
to do this, but I'm not sure if that's because there's some default
locale that's being picked up by Python from somewhere other than the
environment.
To sum it up: Is this a bad unintended consequence of removing codepage:utf?
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David Rothenberger ---- daver...@acm.org
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Dumb and illiterate.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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