Am 13.05.2017 um 12:32 schrieb José Abílio Matos <jama...@lyx.org>: > > On Saturday, 13 May 2017 10.50.10 WEST Stephan Witt wrote: >> Yes, I put in in. (And you luckily hit a Friday to place your smiley ) > > That has never stopped me before. :-D > > My daughter and son follow the same footsteps, some of the other parents said > that never saw them not smiling in the morning. That is obviously an > exaggeration but the point remains. :-) > >> I’m not so easy with your proposal to remove the error handler. >> I think we have a real problem here: the encoding of the path names >> in preferences is undefined if I’m not mistaken. > > I understand and share your concern. But we were placing those safeguards at > the wrong place. > > The encoding of the path names is related with the name of the file and not > with its content. The error handler was placed when reading the file and thus > is related with its content.
I meant the name of a directory as part of a preference entry. Isn’t this read and converted by prefs2prefs too? > >> Of course we have to fix it in some way - but I don’t know enough >> of python (obviously) to make the right proposal. > > FWIW note the we could restore the previous behaviour by doing: > > if PY2: > source = io.open(args[0], 'r', encoding='utf_8') > else: > source = io.open(args[0], 'r', encoding='utf_8', errors='surrogateescape') > > with PY2 being defined as usual in the other python files. Ok, I can take a look - if you want I should do it. (As an exercise?) Stephan
