Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > > My tests with 7-zip and WinRAR conviced me that it's not a good idea to use > utf-8 *by default* on Windows. But since mbcs doesn't support surrogateescape > error handler, we should restore the previous behaviour just for this > encoding. > > tarfile_mbcs_errors.patch creates a function choose_errors() which determine > the best error handler depending on the encoding and the mode (read or write): > - "strict" to write with mbcs > - "replace" to read with mbcs > - "surrogateescape" otherwise
I think you should implement this in a more general way: have the class test whether the codec supports "surrogateescape" and then use it. Otherwise fall back to "strict" for writing and "replace" for reading. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8784> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
