2010/2/17 Václav Řehák <rehak...@gmail.com>

> the changeset 10693 fixing #11030 (File uploads break on non english
> filesystem encoding) introduced a problem with non english filenames
> in my setup (Windows XP or 2003, Python2.6, Apache). If I upload a
> file with czech characters (e.g. čeština.txt - the first character is
> ccaron or \u010d, the 3rd is scaron or \u0161) the file created on
> Windows filesystem has a crippled name (čeština.txt).
>
> The problem is caused by smart_str converting the unicode string into
> bytestring. If I revert 10693 and let the filename be passed to
> os.open() as unicode string, the file is correctly created on the
> filesystem. I think that smart_str should be called only if the
> underlying filesystem cannot handle unicode characters in the
> filename.
>

Please open a ticket. That fix looks wrong to me. We shouldn't be assuming
the file system uses utf-8 encoding.

Karen

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